Real-World Experience to be Highighted at SoilWarrior Academy

SoilWarrior Academy will be held on Tuesday in southern Minnesota to offer information about strip tillage, sustainability, cover crops and more. “We want to highlight strip till as a practice and expose people to that,” said Dave Sender, regional sales manager, Environmental Tillage Systems.  Regional Sales Manager Dave Sender says strip till reduces the cost of crop production. The residue also protects the crop from the strong winds seen this spring. “Up in the (Red River) Valley, we’ve had a lot of growers who have adopted this technology with sugarbeet growers sick and tired of having their crops destroyed by that wind, sandblasting their crop so they have to replant,” said Sender. “Growers see a benefit to leaving that residue there; it helps slow that wind across the field and keep that soil in place.” The SoilWarrior Academy will be held on Tuesday at FarmAmerica, near Waseca.