| neukm - 7/16/2017 10:20 And what's the ratio of failed conventional tilled fields to failed cover crop fields? In my area, every. single. one. of the cover fields would have me hanging my head over the porcelain bowl, if they were mine. edit: by FAR the best looking beans here are those planted into fall tilled fields that were knocked down a couple weeks before planting. No till has a decent stand, but the beans refuse to grow and now it's getting dry for a puny 4" tall plant, where the tillage fields are approaching knee high.
Neukm, those pics Cliff showed are sorta cherry-picked of the worst. Honestly 80+% of our soys I'm pretty happy with for the weather they've gone through, and everything with tillage earlier has nice stands. That final couple days of planting where we had to hook the disk on and make two tillage trips to kill big weeds in a few fields are where the dry dirt issues happened. Guess I should have put them 3" deep, but there was plenty of rain in the forecast at the time and as you probably know we generally have more problems from 3" rains than we do from drying out after the planter. |
Point of the Drought Game
