just a tish NE of central ND | My limited experiences of 60 years.... Nice firm but not hard seedbed so the seed isn't totally buried 3 inches deep. Alfalfa like a fairly shallow seed depth but needs moisture too and can be forgiving for seed depth to a point......Any drill will get the seed into the soil then but not buried if the bed is nice and moist and firm. Then firm the seedbed again after its seeded. Now adjusting the seeding rate is more of an issue for me.
It seems alfalfa can push/emerge/through a quite hard layer of soils above the seed if it's not buried too deep.
I have seeded alfalfa with a concord air drill and twin row Dutch openers with a cover crop. |
Drill for seeding alfalfa
