We have not been satisfied with our double crop soybean stand for several years.  It's like we are taking half the beans we want to plant and just throwing them away. In some places we have a good stand and other places it is not as good as we want. Over the last few years we've used 2 different Great Plains drills and a Case IH 5500 soybean special.  The biggest problem is in combine wheel tracks.  We are tossing around the idea next year of disking the wheat stubble with a Sunflower disk pulling a J&M rolling harrow before drilling.

Now before anyone jumps up and down keep 2 things in mind.  1) We don't care if no-till is part of your religion.  It is a management tool we can use or not use depending on how it fits our operation. 2) We are talking irrigated sand in SE Illinois.  We are planning on wheat with a yield goal of at least 75 bushels (this year with all the rain and disease we were in mid-50's) and double cropping soybeans  with a yield goal  of 60 bushels (we are consistently over 45 and run as high as 60).  If disking will bring our yield up a consistent 5-10 bushels it is the path we will take.

The irrigation makes this possible.  In non-irrigated fields there wold be too much moisture loss to even consider it.  With irrigation we take that limitation out of the equation.

The problem with what we have been doing is we don't feel we are getting all advantage of the potential we have. I'm planning on doing some trespassing the next few days and check the stands the neighbors are getting.  I can compare Kinze split row, JD, CIH, and CNH planters withing a few miles

Any ideas or suggestions?