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Minnesota | I tried ripping straight with the direction that we would plant last fall (was the advice of some old posts on here). I have an 875 ripper, which is 24" spacing and we had "as good as it gets" tillage conditions last fall. I hated it this spring when I was trying to plant! My planting tractor (large frame FWA with front duals) would catch a ripper track and then the autosteer would really start to over-correct and really get squiggly. I ended up having to plant at below normal speed to keep the rows half way straight. I won't ever rip parallel to the planting direction again.
Most of my fields we ripped 5 degrees of the rows and then field cultivated the opposite 5 degrees of the rows in the spring. That seemed to work pretty well and the autosteer didn't fall into the ripper tracks. In the fall of 2024 we ripped at 2 degrees off the rows....I struggled holding the line planting and spraying the following spring.
I'm also interested what other people have found to work......if the fall tillage angle is too close to the rows the planting tractor autosteer struggles and gets rough if the angle is too steep!
Edited by chris dds 6/7/2026 19:08
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Tillage angle corn on corn
