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| We have found one pass into heavy corn residue with a VT tool is often worse than no-till. This is because it knocks all the trash on the ground that the discs now have to cut though, plus they don't have a firm base to help cut the residue (so you end up with a lot of seeds on top that can winterkill).
So if you have heavy corn residue, either leave stalks standing tall and no-till into it (with a properly equipped and ballasted drill), or work it enough times to bury the majority of the corn residue, then drill it.
Your challenge with no-tilling into heavy, freshly harvested corn residue is cutting through the residue in the rows, a single disc drill will regularly outperform a double-disc drill by a wide margin, but it's still tough to get uniform stands.
EDIT, make sure you spread the corn residue which comes out of the back of the combine the full width of the corn head, I see lots of 12-16 row heads where the combine is only spreading half the width of the head. It makes it tough to plant into this loose residue and a VT tool won't help with this mess.
Edited by Phil N 9/15/2023 09:14
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No till into cornstalks with crustbuster
