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Take care of next year’s crops by focusing on this year’s crop residue. Crop residue management is a crucial tool to optimize crop production by reducing wind and water erosion, increasing organic matter and providing nutrient value to create a productive seedbed.

From ground-engaging pull-type models to highly productive self-propelled applicator equipment, Case IH offers a full line of application solutions that help feed, protect and nurture crops.

Whether wet fields are hindering your harvest or you’re rolling along in drier conditions, locating and breaking up hard pan or compaction layer during postharvest tillage can help improve moisture management heading into next year and beyond.

Jason Strode and his father, Richard, farm about 5,200 acres of corn and soybean crops near Owensboro, Kentucky, where they’ve begun focusing on nitrogen management and have looked harder at providing nitrogen to the crop when it needs it.

Although it may be hard to pinpoint the revenue lost to contaminated spray equipment, the damage is obvious. Whether grain prices are at a peak or in a valley, taking the time to carefully and thoroughly clean your sprayer is well worth the effort.

“… if the weather cooperates” Is a phrase many winter wheat farmers will utter often over the next couple of weeks as they consider double-cropping soybeans. It’s a practice worth considering — if the weather cooperates.