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Nwmo | I have some heavy gumbo river bottom ground that can get pretty wet, It has good surface drains and some tile but not pattern tiled. The ground was plowed into lands years ago, its not plowed anymore but the lands and dead furrows are still there and we regularly clean the ditches with a ditcher.
If I can't put any more tile in and corn is suffering from being too wet at certain times of the year would planting on a ridge or raised beds help the situation?
My thought was to build the beds/ridges then plant on them, I'm not planning to make any passes in season with any tillage tools. I have access to a couple of Buffalo cultivators, could those be setup with ridging wings to build the ridges in the fall or spring before planting or do I need a completely different tool to build them?
The next issue is how do you put nh3 down, I'm thinking it would need to be put in the ridge do you try to do this after they are built or do it while they are being built?
Then how do you plant on the ridge, planting with a 16 row 1770nt drawn planter. Will the tires stay in the furrows and keep the planter on the ridges or is it going to want slide off the ridges and plant in the furrows?
If the planter tires do stay in the furrows will the frame of the planter be low enough to max out the range of motion on the planter unit parallel arms?
The other thing I have to figure out is whether the ridges will block the water from flowing to dead furrows and draining out of the field since the ridges will be parallel to the dead furrows. I didn't know if anyone had experience planting on beds in a field setup in 300ft lands | |
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Ridge Till or bedding Quesitons
