Minimum Tillage / Reduced Pass Tillage Equipment
(These implements can be used to reduce the number of tillage passes that are used between harvest of one crop and planting of the next crop.)
Hahn Bed Disk Hahn Tractor Co. Inc.
Clifford Hahn
P.O. Box 2167
Stockton, CA 95201
Telephone (209) 944-0743
Fax (209) 944-9862
hahncc@aol.com
Wilcox Performer
Wilcox Agriproducts
Alan Wilcox
15189 State Hwy 160
P.O. Box 70
Walnut Grove, CA 95690
Telephone (916) 776-1784
Mobile (916) 439-2365
Fax (916) 776-1602
wilcoxag@ss.com
Optimizer
Tillage International
Kevin McDonald
2328 Paulson Road
Turlock, CA 95380
Telephone (209) 634-2891
Mobile (209) 321-9253
onetill@pacbell.net
Sundance Wide Bed Disk
Arizona Drip Systems
David Wuertz
3227 West Bechtel Road
Coolidge, AZ 85228
Telephone (520) 723-9226
Fax (520) 723-9210
nancy@azdrip.com
John Deere No-Till Planters and Drills
Deere & Company
One John Deere Place
Moline IL 61265-8098
Phone: 309-765-8000
Sunflower No-Till Drills
Sunflower Manufacturing
#1 Sunflower Drive
Box 566
Beloit, KS 67420-0566
No-Till Planters (cont.)
Kinze No-Till Planters
Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
I-80 at Exit 216
Williamsburg, IA 52361-0806
Dennis Whitehead
(319) 668-1300
Fax (319) 668-1328
Great Plains No-Till Planters and Drills
Great Plains Mfg., Inc.
Mike Cleveland
National Sales Manager
Telephone (785) 823-3276 Ext. 1306
P.O. Box 5060
Salina, KS 66901
Fax (785) 822-5600
mike.cleveland@greatplainsmfg.com
www.greatplainsmfg.com
Kellogg's Seed Service
Rental and sales of no-till drills and Yetter equipment
Brands of no-till drills: Haybuster, California Drill (Kellogg), Sukup, Duncan (from New Zealand) and others
Bill Kellogg
Telephone (530) 872-2624
Fax (530) 624-3045
3367 Neal Road
Paradise, CA 95969
Wlk242@saber.net
www.kelloggseedservice.com
Strip-tillers
(These implements perform vertical tillage, loosening the soil in the seed line, but do not mix inter-row soil surfaces much.)
1-tRIPr
Orthman Mfg., Inc.
P.O. Box B
Lexington, NE 68850
Telephone (308) 324-4654
Fax (302) 324-5001
Mark Griffith
Marketing Director
(308) 324-4654 x 7526
mgriffith@orthman.com
Justin Troudt
VP Sales and Marketing
jtroudt@orthman.com
Terratill
Bigham Brothers, Inc.
P.O. Box 3338
705 East Slaton Road
Lubbock, TX 79452
(800) 692-4449
Fax (806) 745-0384
Jack Young
P.O. Box 495
Ralls, TX 79357
Mobile (806) 790-9301
Strip-tillers (cont.)
2500 Ecolo Till / No-Till
Case IH
Dave Marten / Crop Production Specialist
Telephone (509) 994-1712
Racine, WI
Fax (509) 238-6297
dave.marten@cnh.com
Ripper Stripper
Unverferth Mfg. Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 357
Kalida, OH 45853
Telephone (419) 532-3121
Fax (419) 532-2468
info@unverferth.com
No-Till / Fertility Ag Support Services
(These companies provide planting, fertilization and other crop production services related to conservation tillage.)
Western Farm Service
Larry Beckstead
265 Arboleda Drive
Merced, CA 95340
209-722-4181
209-722-4837
Wilbur Ellis
Rod Yraceburu
Tom Elrod
Phillip Moxley
(559) 866-5667
Helm, CA
Ag Spectrum Company
Nu-Till Maximum Farming System™
Monte Bottens
7010 N. Marks Ste 103-373
Fresno, CA 93711
Telephone (559) 277-0940
Mobile (559) 694-1582
mrbottens@yahoo.com
www.maximumfarming.com
Additional Conservation Tillage Equipment
Shredder Bedder
One-pass conservation tillage implement for cotton
Al Ruozi
Telephone (661) 322-6659
Fax (661) 322-7448
P.O. Box 70296
Bakersfield, CA 93387-0296
interstate@cottonshredderbedder.com
http://www.cottonshredderbedder.com
Front hitches and front PTO systems for tractors to be used in no-till, strip-till and reduced till combinations
LaForge Systems, Inc.
Lars Paulsson
(800) 422-5636
Mobile (925-890-5350
4425-C Treat Blvd. #230
Concord, CA 94521
lars@fronthitch.com
www.fronthitch.com
NOTE:
The CT Workgroup has a number of these CT implements on loan from these companies. If you would like to try CT on a limited basis, please contact the CT Workgroup at (559) 303-9689.