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Water Infiltration: Do Your Landlords Understand?

Dear Exapta customers & contacts,

Whether you’ve seen this article previously or not, it is worth reviewing— whether you farm in wet conditions or dry. It explains the single most important factor in getting water (rainfall or irrigation or snow melt) to move into the soil:

Understanding the Process of Water Infiltration* by Rolf Derpsch. 

Rolf is perhaps the world’s foremost expert on no-tillage: He certainly has consulted and researched no-till in the most diverse settings. Born in Chile, multilingual, and educated…continue reading here: Water-infiltration

Derek Tjaden

Derek is Kansas native who grew up in a 100% no-till farming operation. From an early age the benefits of no-till were made known to Derek by his father and by attending no-till conferences. From there he furthered his passion for soils while at Kansas State University getting his agronomy degree. He has had the experience of working in various roles and sectors of agriculture from sales and consulting, to management, which have all been within production agriculture. Derek has also worked in specialty ag markets such as turf and ornamentals.

Bob Pagel

Sales & Service Representative

Prior to joining Exapta, Bob Pagel was an Agricultural Territory Sales Manager for Ritchie Brothers, serving parts of MN, WI and IA. He continues to support his family farm in SE Minnesota.

Jon Zeller

Current Product Engineer

Jonathan Zeller joined Exapta excited to return to working with no-till planting equipment. He supported research of no-till planting and other ag related projects for 7 years with Kansas State University’s Agricultural Engineering Department after getting his engineering degree. He later worked 3 years for Landoll Company, LLC. where he gained experience in a design engineering role. Jonathan grew up on a small family farm in NE Kansas working with row crops, hay and cattle. Jonathan enjoys solving engineering problems and improving or creating products to be robust and easy to install and service.