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Feild leveling
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09/15/2004 - 1:01 pm
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Name: Dave HeidemanSubject: Feild leveling
Email: heide@frontiernet.net
I plant 30 inch corn/15 inch soybeans(1 yr corn-1 yr soybean rotation)with a Kinze split row planter on sandy loam soil in central Wisconsin. No deep tillage is used. Nitrogen is split applied on sandy soil-1/2 pre-emerge sprayed with herbicide, and 1/2 sidedressed with a 9400 Sukup cultivator. When planting soybeans I have a ridging between corn rows(2-3 inches) and I would like to level this out. This ridging is caused by a combination of planting and combining weight in the rows and the cultivation. I am considering using a Phillips or Phoenix rotary harrow, a McFarlane reel till, or a finishing disk that would be run just deep enough to level the ridging(2-3 inches). I want to limit compaction and do not want to create horizontal density changes in the soil, while leveling the ridges and evenly spreading surface residue. Any comments on these tillage tools or other recomendations would be appreciated.
Email: heide@frontiernet.net
I plant 30 inch corn/15 inch soybeans(1 yr corn-1 yr soybean rotation)with a Kinze split row planter on sandy loam soil in central Wisconsin. No deep tillage is used. Nitrogen is split applied on sandy soil-1/2 pre-emerge sprayed with herbicide, and 1/2 sidedressed with a 9400 Sukup cultivator. When planting soybeans I have a ridging between corn rows(2-3 inches) and I would like to level this out. This ridging is caused by a combination of planting and combining weight in the rows and the cultivation. I am considering using a Phillips or Phoenix rotary harrow, a McFarlane reel till, or a finishing disk that would be run just deep enough to level the ridging(2-3 inches). I want to limit compaction and do not want to create horizontal density changes in the soil, while leveling the ridges and evenly spreading surface residue. Any comments on these tillage tools or other recomendations would be appreciated.
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