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Does corn or beans benifit more from deep tillage?
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sheffield77
Posted 10/29/2025 10:35 (#11417125 - in reply to #11416494)
Subject: RE: Does corn or beans benifit more from deep tillage?


Midwestfeeder - 10/28/2025 19:20

sheffield77 - 10/28/2025 19:08

Midwestfeeder - 10/28/2025 18:44

sheffield77 - 10/28/2025 12:44

Midwestfeeder - 10/28/2025 12:31

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In what biological system does nature "turn it black"?[/QUOTE


On what planet is nature a better farmer than a farmer? If that were true we should all just lay back on our hind ends and eat what nature provides. Why work at all if nature will do so much better?


Lots of corn, lots of soy beans, and lots of other crops are grown without turning the soil black.


Not here there isnt. Very little.


Why not? Is it cause that's the way everyone else does it?


No. Its been tried by many. If the ground is not black it will not warm up and dry out most years in the spring. Some are having success with striptill but that again is a nice black strip. Not everyone deep tills like i do but virtually everyone at least works the surface with some form of vt tool at a minimum to turn it black. Most of the vts are getting more and more aggressive too to make it blacker. We have several different instances ourselves where due to a late fall not all the ground got worked in the fall. Always leads to a mess come spring. Trying to mud beans into cold ground a month late kinda cures you of a desire to leave ground anything but black.


Sounds like more of a negative feedback loop than anything else.
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