High-Efficiency Farming ensures seedbed preparation and seed placement accuracy are matched with the ideal speed for your individual field conditions and yield goals. It’s not simply working faster. It’s about finding the perfect match of tractor, tillage tool and planter to get the most from every field, every season. WELCOME TO HIGH-EFFICIENCY FARMING
Taking care of your seedbed is a year-round job . From crop residue distribution out the back of the combine to fall tillage to improving soil tilth, each step in the process leads you closer to the perfect seedbed.
should be even more level, smooth and consistent than the field surface. In between, look for moisture throughout the seedbed depth. You also need soil that is well-mixed, providing the right soil-air-water balance and reliable incorporation. That’s exactly what you get with the Tiger-Mate 255 field cultivator — a tillage tool that readies your fields faster and more efficiently than any tillage tool you’ve experienced.
The Iowa State specialists attribute late-emerging plants to several factors, including: • Variation in soil temperature • Seeding depth • Crop residue distribution
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• Soil crusting • Soil moisture
Seedbed conditions — a core principle of Case IH Agronomic Design — affect germination, plant development and, ultimately, yield potential. When you pull your planter through the gate, you expect a field that looks ready to plant — a field with a smooth, consistent soil surface. But the ideal seedbed reaches much deeper. What you can’t see is as important as what you can see. On the surface, the perfect seedbed is level, adequately firm and covered with small clods or a light mulch of crop residue to protect against soil erosion. Below ground, the subsurface floor where your planter places the seed
Whether slicing and sizing the toughest crop residue, breaking through compaction or thoroughly mixing soil to improve soil tilth, the full line of Case IH tillage equipment can help you more precisely prepare each field according to your unique preferences. And then you can rely on the Tiger-Mate 255 to create the ideal seedbed and the 2000 series Early Riser ® planter to perfectly place the seed into that environment.
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Fields that get off to a quick, uniform start yield better. When Iowa State University Extension specialists compiled and analyzed research from across the Midwest, they found that an uneven corn stand with just 17 percent of the plants emerging late yielded 4 percent to 8 percent less grain. 1 On 200-bushel-per-acre corn, that’s 8 to 16 fewer bushels per acre. When lagging plants accounted for half the field, yields dropped by 20 percent.
1 Yield effect of uneven corn heights. Iowa State University Agronomy Extension website. http://www.agronext.iastate.edu/corn/production/ management/early/heights.html. Accessed March 31, 2016.
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