SOIL HEALTH

HEALTHY SOIL, HEALTHY FARM

Keeping the soil healthy on your farm is incredibly important if you want to increase the quality of your crop yield and maintain a sustainable farm for the future. 

Here at Shuter Sunset Farms, we grass waterways with a filter strip to maintain soil operations. This saves us a lot of time, energy, and fuel which lets us work with the environment in mind. 

We manufacture a limited amount of custom farm equipment to help other farmers get the most out of their fields.
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Crop and Soil
wheat

NO-TILL AND STRIP-TILL FARMING

Farm Vegetables
We don’t use any field cultivators, plows, or big-horsepower tractors. We're dedicated to making no-till work. 

We introduced cover crops to build better soil structure, improve nutrient use and efficiency, and to help reduce the cost of nitrogen. By investing in healthier, stronger soil, we can withstand the effects of heavy rainfall.

By using object sensors, we’re able to control our soil's nitrogen rates and provide our crops with the levels of nitrogen they need, when they need it. 

By not over-applying fertilizer and maintaining the fertility that we’ve already got in our soil, we can make sure that our land is in prime condition when passed on to the next generation. 
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WEED CONTROL

Every farmer hates weeds. Commercial weed killer has been proven to be incredibly damaging to our land - so we developed a new weed-control tool called a Hot Water Weeder. 

It works by applying water that’s heated to 220-250 degrees to the weeds, causing them to blister, dehydrate and die - no nasty chemicals needed!

To keep the water from evaporating as steam it’s kept under intense pressure until it’s released in the fields.

We use a Miller Nitro sprayer, as well as an Oxbo International sprayer. To protect our soybean and corn plants we built a stainless steel hood to cover them. The hot water is applied to the weeds underneath the hoods. 

Our finished model of the Shuter Hot Water Weeder has 13 hoods and can cover 12 rows of corn or beans.
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Farm Planting
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