This is the cover of my A, E & E Digest from March of 2001. It documents the achievements I have been blessed to have been a part of with many farmers, NCSU, NC Department of Agriculture, USDA / NRCS, Orthman Manufacturing and the many fabrication shops too numerous to name from 1991 until 2002.

P-2&3 documents the progress John Strickland III Farms and I have made since 2021. I have  helped John the past 3 seasons hauling seed, chemicals and water to his planters during May. What we have observed is that in 2024 & 2025 there was excessive rainfall preventing bedding and planting for a week. Then when it got dry enough to plant I put in 103 hours in 7 days in 2024 & 96 hours in 7 days in 2025. I have video showing a field that had been bedded & cone rolled for over a month with 6 to 8” of rain that kept their height & retained the moisture that resulted in consistent stands even in fields that did not have any rain for 3 weeks. The PATS Hydraulically Driven Stainless Steel Cone Rollers will allow you to:

1 – Spread your workload out.

2 – Reduce hours on tractors, labor and fuel costs.

3 – Preformed beds allow you to get in the field earlier when it is wet and allows you to have moister when is dry.

4 –  Better stands in extreme wet or dry conditions.