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Automated core collection improves soil sampling

2015-08-10 16:10:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Speed, repeatability and ability to sample odd shaped zones are major benefits to using automated soil sampling. With some machines, farmers can collect up to 40 cores in as many seconds, traveling at 5 mph. read more

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Soil Stabilization Spreader is available with floater trailer.

2015-08-04 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Pull-type, 27-ton SS-2518 is available with 80,000 lb GVWR floater trailer, which features fully welded structural tubular steel frame, walking beam suspension, and 710/50-30.5 floatation tires. Able to work in soft conditions, each pneumatically loadable SS-2518 is equipped with self-contained hydraulic system powered by tractor's PTO. It can also be used with vehicles without PTO using optional auxiliary engine. Stoltz Controller maintains constant spread rate up to 120 lb/yd² at 2 mph.

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VIDEO: Kenyan loans linked to soil quality

2015-07-31 16:51:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A Kenyan company is offering loans to farmers where the interest rates charged are linked to the quality of the soil, providing an incentive for soil preservation.

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ALLIANCE TIRE SOIL PIT HIGHLIGHTS COMPACTION CHALLENGES

2015-07-24 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

WAKEFIELD, Mass. (July 23, 2015)—A soil pit demonstration by Alliance Tire Americas at the North American Manure Expo in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, highlighted the dramatic difference in soil compaction between bias-ply and radial flotation tires—a roughly 50-percent difference in the depth of the compaction. Alliance compared two types of tires on the same 7,250-gallon Diller manure tank—conventional bias-ply R-3 tires on one side of each of the rig’s two axles and radial flotation tires on the other. read more

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