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Southeast WI | Darren - no humics. 4-10-10 2×2 (actually a little closer than that) is in the big tanks. Middle tank I can put down whatever I want to test in-furrow. Saddles on tractor deliver 32% out behind the press wheels 3" off the row, surface applied. Now question for you on humics and other sources of nutrients - what would a good program be to test in my starter trial? I would like to explore other things next year. Email me if you don't want to respond here. It's all good.
Mitch - not enough time to test as much as you suggest but I have plenty of data that I'm not afraid to plant green like I showed with our moisture conditions. Actually only one field is planted green with thinner rye. Most have been killed before planting. Alfalfa is the thick mat of vegetation and it's dying quickly today. I really pound on having data to guide decisions. If I were just piloting my own ship I could fly by the seat of my pants and say and do whatever. However I do help others make a lot of decisions dealing with covers and fertility so we need to back up recs with defensible data.
AGB - see my comments to Mitch. Preferred is plant into fairly brown rye but my data says it's OK to do this if soil moisture is adequate. A lot of my small fields were planted green and killed several days after planting today.
Kooiker and Jon - this is not there. Conditions are ideal for planting therefore definitely not mud and not dry. My planter is incredibly clean planting this year as we've been able to wait for optimum field conditions across fields. We can get dry western conditions or we can get wet southern IL conditions in any given year. Being adaptable with this notill system helps. In wet years I would have pulled the Pluribus out. No need this year. We have options.
JRCS - really can't help you out. We, and pretty much all notill farmers started our careers out with full tillage. Hell, I was moldboard plowing into the 80's as a teen and then education and learning from other farmers found us on this journey starting about 35 years ago. It's a system to learn. Not hocus pocus, not a religion, just basic agronomics and it takes awhile to get soils to respond after you minimize tillage. It would be silly to go back to tillage on any of our soils. A good friend and neighbor talks about how tillage earned it's way off his farm. He actually responded to this thread. Friend of mine from college has a dad that would give me hell in the early 90's - "notill no yield". Well he's 85 and his son sent me a pic of him notilling his soybeans in last week.
Hope everyone is winding down planting season - best of luck this year! | |
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My tillage tool is leaving streaks - what would you do?
