These experienced New England deep zone till (DZT) growers/educators invite you to contact or visit them to learn more about DZT. The farms range in size from 20 to over 300 acres, so you don’t have to have a huge farm to use zone tillage.

Ask the growers about:

• Zone Builder machines
• residue managers
• combining tools/equipment to get the results you want
• cover crop management
• fertilization techniques
• weed control
• time and fuel savings
• other advantages, etc.

Everybody seems to find new ways to use their Zone Builder and no two growers do everything exactly alike.

Start by reading some of the DZT articles in the Vegetable Section of the UConn IPM Web Site and other web sites. Then, contact someone who has used the system to find out more, visit a farm to see the equipment and results first hand, and finally, buy a machine of your own and start enjoying all the benefits for yourself. Once you start, the only question you will ask yourself is, “why did I wait so long to switch?”

One of the farms listed below now has two Zone Builders of different sizes set up specifically for particular duties (i.e. close spaced shanks to loosen soil under a raised bed), and another grower is about to buy a second machine (to have wide spacing for pumpkins). When I called to get permission to use his name on this list, one of the growers told me that “It’s so fast that I feel like I’m cheating when I make a corn planting. I’m done tilling and planting in 45 minutes.”

DEEP ZONE TILLAGE GROWERS
		May 2010
Nelson Cecarelli Cecarelli Farm 153 Old Post Road Northford, CT 06472 203-484-0101 203-410-7155 nchick@sbcglobal.net Started using DZT in 2007 Uses DZT for SC, winter squash, beans		Tom Scott Scott’s Yankee Farmer 291 N. Bride Brook Road E. Lyme, CT 06333 860-739-0247 Thomas_S_Scott@sbcglobal.net Started using DZT in 2008 Uses DZT for apples, all vegetables, raised beds
Jeff Wilson 116 Tyler Road Orange, CT 06477 203-901-4469 Jeffrey1193@sbcglobal.net Jeff.wilson@energizer.com Started using DZT in 2009 Uses DZT for SC, pumpkins, raised beds		Keith Marshall, Manager Wilson Farm 144 Charles Bancroft Hwy (Route 3A) Litchfield, NH 03052 603-882-5551 781-316-6699 Farmerk78@gmail.com Started using DZT in 2009 Uses DZT for all vegetables, raised beds
Mike Zigmont, Manager Czajkowski Farm 135 Mt. Warner Road| Hadley, MA 01035| 413-244-5384 mzigmont@comcast.net Started using DZT in 2009 Uses DZT for SC, pumpkins and winter squash
DEEP ZONE TILLAGE EDUCATORS
Eben Weil Ag Consultant 136 Cayuta St. Corning, NY 14830 607-857-3302 emweil@stny.rr.com Many years of reduced-till/DZT experience		Jude Boucher University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension 24 Hyde Ave Vernon, CT 06066 860-875-3331 jude.boucher@uconn.edu Started using DZT in 2009 (UConn Research Farm) Advising on DZT since 2007
DEEP ZONE TILLAGE EQUIPMENT DEALERS
Brooks Finnegan Unverferth Manufacturing P. O. Box 357 Kalida, OH 45853 brooksfi@unverferth Contact info for Unverferth dealers in New England		Stanton Equipment, Inc. 105 South Main St. East Windsor, CT. 06088 860-623-8296

T. Jude Boucher, Agricultural Educator-Commercial Vegetable Crops, UConn Cooperative Extension, Vernon, CT. May 2010. Reprinted from Croptalk v.6.1

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