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Scranton | NONE of these fields around here are no tilled beans into cornstalks. All are either high speed disked, or, more often, diskripped. And they all have good soil finishers they use in the spring. All of this does create perfect seedbeds, which may well give them that extra yield they are hoping for.
Still, 70+ bu beans create a lot of residue on their own. Most everyone went away from this way back in the 80's or earlier. Back when field cultivators that could handle the trash came out. Of course, the combines back then didn't chop it up as well as they do now. And there weren't many soil finishers around back then.
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Cover crop vs disking bean stubble
