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Tillage options for unharvestable corn

Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020 Updated Sep 22, 2020

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High-speed disk in downed corn.

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Modified disk ripper with ripper shanks removed in downed corn.

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Editor’s note: The following was written by Ryan Bergman, Iowa State University program coordinator in ag technology, Mark Licht, assistant professor, and Meaghan Anderson and Angie Rieck-Hinz, Extension field agronomists, for the Extension Integrated Crop Management blog.

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