Harvest Public Media Farmers got to sit in and demo farm equipment, including this tractor, at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. You’ve got to look where your money would be best spent when you have a limited amount of money to spend.” “You have to limit what you can buy,” Hanson said, “but you’ve got to keep up to date on some of them because the future is changing. Strip tillage is a form of conservation where producers plant and till in narrow rows. It’s nice to kind of take a pen and paper, write down all the things and then go measure the other stuff and see exactly what you are after.”ĭan Hanson, who farms corn and soybeans near Fort Dodge, Iowa, looked at a strip till machine from the company Environmental Tillage Systems that could help minimize soil erosion while reducing the cost of fertilizer and fuel. “All those different competitors are right close to each other,” he said. Ledvina said he wants to upgrade to a bigger one with more room to haul his goats around the state to manage forests and remove invasive species.
He also had time to check out the numerous offerings of the Farm Progress Show and look at livestock trailers. Harvest Public Media Adam Ledvina stands in the Varied Industries Tent at the Farm Progress Show in Iowa, passing out popcorn and promoting cover crops.
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