Strip-till

Strip-till is a conservation system that uses a minimum tillage. It combines the soil drying and warming benefits of conventional tillage with the soil-protecting advantages of no-till by disturbing only the portion of the soil that is to contain the seed row.[1] This type of tillage is performed with special equipment[2] and can require the farmer to make multiple trips,[1] depending on the strip-till implement used, and field conditions. Each row that has been strip-tilled is usually about eight to ten inches wide.[1]

A strip-till demonstration
A field planted using strip-till. Notice the crop residue of prior crop between the growing crop rows.
  1. ^ a b c Brown, Eric. "Conservation Tillage Field Day at ARDEC". Colorado State University Extension. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  2. ^ "CONSERVATION PRACTICE DEFINITIONS AND THEIR CORRESPONDING POTENTIAL TO ADVERSELY IMPACT CULTURAL RESOURCES" (PDF). Natural Resources Conservation Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture. p. 11. Retrieved 9 November 2013.