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North Central Iowa | I've been strip tilling my corn on bean acres and doing custom strip till work for eight years now. I'm using Dawn Pluribus units on a Buffalo cultivator bar behind an Elk Creek caddy. The strip till bar is twelve row. I started with a twelve row planter, but after doing custom work for customers with eight, twelve, sixteen, and twenty four row planters and always having repeat business, I went to a sixteen row planter as well. With RTK guidance the only place I have any problem is one field with 14% slopes. I had trouble staying on the strip on that one even when the bar and planter matched. There's just a lot of implement drift on 14% slopes. Fortunately it's a very limited amount of acres, so I just do the best I can. Implement guidance would never pay for itself on this small field.
As far as fertility goes, I soil test and use maintenance + rates. It yields comparably to my conventional tilled and fertilized acres. I haven't gotten comfortable yet with corn on corn strip till so I still conventional till those acres. | |
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Beginner strip till question
