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SUBSCRIBEGeneral No-Till
tyrying notill on a few ac's
Post At
11/26/2011 - 9:35 am
reply from
Paul wagner
We are thinking of trying some no-till corn and soys. Our normal tillage program is 1 pass with a chisel plow with 4" twisted shank [/b](IH 55 plow[b]) in fall or spring depending on weather and 1 pass with a vibershank [/b](IH 4500[b]) then plant. On sod/old hay fields we molboard plow and disk or drag it smooth.
We plant with a Kinze model 2000 6 row 30", dry fertilizer and pop up in furrow with Keeton seed firmers. It has the stock single wheel row cleaners, stock closing wheels. We plant both corn and soys with it. Pull it with a 1086 with saddle tanks for popup.
Fertilizer for corn 2x2 is 25# ams, 25# urea, amd 50# potash. Usually sidress with 28%, 20-35 gals and 2 1/2 gals k-thio. Normal yields in corn 90-125 bpa. Fertilizer for soys usually 100# potash or k-thio.
Soils vary from sand/gravel to heavy clay.
We sidress with a coulter rig. Also have a nh3 type knife on a backup machine.
We would like to notill corn into
Soybean stubble. We have the straw spread very even and ground is smooth. Was dry so no combine tracks.
Burned down hay fields some this fall and some in spring.
Corn stubble that is not rutted up but some was plowed pastures last fall. all stalks are flail chopped which i hear is not good.
We would like to no-till soys into wheat stubble with straw baled corn stubble.
Our biggest concern is that we are far enough north we have a very short growing season and need soil to warm as fast as it can. Tillage seems to get soil warmer. Usually plant 75-89 day corn. Last 2 years we had good years and alot of heat but that can change. We also are looking at strip till and planter attachments. our concern with planter attachments is clay soils/wet dirt sticking to planter depth wheels. Strip till may be best because top of soil can dry but ground is fairley hilly and planter drift may not keep us on the strip. Thank you for reading the long post and for any advice.
We plant with a Kinze model 2000 6 row 30", dry fertilizer and pop up in furrow with Keeton seed firmers. It has the stock single wheel row cleaners, stock closing wheels. We plant both corn and soys with it. Pull it with a 1086 with saddle tanks for popup.
Fertilizer for corn 2x2 is 25# ams, 25# urea, amd 50# potash. Usually sidress with 28%, 20-35 gals and 2 1/2 gals k-thio. Normal yields in corn 90-125 bpa. Fertilizer for soys usually 100# potash or k-thio.
Soils vary from sand/gravel to heavy clay.
We sidress with a coulter rig. Also have a nh3 type knife on a backup machine.
We would like to notill corn into
Soybean stubble. We have the straw spread very even and ground is smooth. Was dry so no combine tracks.
Burned down hay fields some this fall and some in spring.
Corn stubble that is not rutted up but some was plowed pastures last fall. all stalks are flail chopped which i hear is not good.
We would like to no-till soys into wheat stubble with straw baled corn stubble.
Our biggest concern is that we are far enough north we have a very short growing season and need soil to warm as fast as it can. Tillage seems to get soil warmer. Usually plant 75-89 day corn. Last 2 years we had good years and alot of heat but that can change. We also are looking at strip till and planter attachments. our concern with planter attachments is clay soils/wet dirt sticking to planter depth wheels. Strip till may be best because top of soil can dry but ground is fairley hilly and planter drift may not keep us on the strip. Thank you for reading the long post and for any advice.
Reply at
02/12/2012 - 8:01 am
reply from
Nicholas Kaye
I can understand your concern about warming the ground Paul, I think the row cleaners gain you a bunch in that respect. I talked to a guy who demo'd the strip-tiller I bought from our Case IH store and he liked how during the dry spells that we always seem to get ... his corn didn't roll where he strip-tilled, but did where he had worked the ground. He farms around Reed City. I firmly believe with no-til a guy wants to commit ground to it, even for a trial basis. My small amount of tillage equipment is gone, the strip-tiller is as close to tillage as I ever hope to be again.
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