Unfortunately, there were no correct submissions for last week's CT Crop Quiz # 54.  This means that the $100 cash prize now doubles with the next Quiz.  Stay tuned for that Quiz in the coming few days.  Do not be discouraged if you did not win this cash prize.  You will have more opportunities in the future.  Remember that so far, we've had two actual winners who've collected their $100 awards.  You too could be a winner!

Here are the correct answers for CT Crop Quiz #54.

1) What is the form or type of CT that is shown by this photo?

This was rather an easy one to figure out. 

This was an example of strip-tillage. And specifically, strip-tillage into a winter small grain silage crop ahead of corn seeding at a dairy.

2)  Where was the photo taken?  (What is the nearest US town?)

The nearest town was Orland, CA.

3)  What was the farmer's primary motivation for using this form of CT in this field this year?

The primary motivation of this farmer for using strip-tillage was to save time and to save money on tillage passes ahead of his corn crop.

You can see a video of a public field day that was held at this farmer's field on the day that these photos were taken by looking at the You Tube link here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbeehf0zfOQ 

You can see what Marty Poldervarrt, the farmer who did this strip-till field, says about the practice in the video.

Over 60 folks have already viewed this video.

To round out the complete story related to this CT Crop Quiz, this quiz provided a rather nice example of some real CT progress and success in a region of California where not much CT had been previously used, at least not to the extent that it is now being used.  This progress stems in large part from a joint effort of a number of folks up in the Orland area including Steve Gruenwald, Marty Poldervarrt, Betsy Karle, Kandi Manhart, Greg Baker, and other farmers in this region who've been working on learning more about strip-tillage since about 2010 when Steve first got things going up there with an initial effort that involved 1,000 acres that first year.  A very successful and information public field day was recently held at the farm of Marty Poldervarrt just outside of Orland that attracted over 30 folks.