waaaay east central Colorado | Scott, we welded a small tube onto the frog to stabilize the seed and hold a fertilizer macro-line. So we are in furrow, under the seed. Kugler company http://www.kuglercompany.com/ (gotta pimp 'em) makes an excellent starter called 15-15. It's unfortunately not on the web site, but we've had excellent results with it. The 15-15 is a 50/50 blend of 9-24-3 and their XRN (which is on the web site) product. As for the bulk of the fertility, we place our phos and some N with the strip tiller.
We had some issues with trash flow this year for the first time. We got our strip tilling done and caught some wonderfully horrible winds that blew stalks back across our strips. We had to cobble together some coultures (it's telling me I'm spelling that wrong) to get through. Have you had any issues with that? We first tried to mount one coulture (I'm gonna spell it this way until someone tells me how to spell it correctly) in between the two units, but it didn't help. We wound up having to run one coulture directly in front of each unit. Space limited us to only being able to use our trash whipper on the set back unit. This winter one of the projects will be to polish our coulters setup a little bit, and get room enough to run trash whippers on both units of the row. That was a long winded explanation to ask if your Yetter coulters act as a trash cutter, or are for fertilizer placement only. |
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