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| I last planted beans in 2008 and was very disappointed in my crop which missed my goal a lot. I was ready to retire and rented on crop share to a neighbor who has also given up on beans. He uses the soil warrior with the digging wheel in the fall, then just the wavy coulters in the spring to mix (has his own RTK tower) the strip. He farms a few thousand acres in the area, all strip tilled corn on corn. Other parts of the county do much better with beans than where my farm is and I suspect that is from being over a limestone layer that tends to make the soil too high in calcium that ties up P and K. We have some strips already down with 1.5 and double rates of the fall fertilization to see if that makes consistently more corn.
I lived in sight of ISU for nearly 40 years but moved 25 miles north to Clear View Farm last year, though my farm is too close to Ames. I graduated from ISU in Electrical Engineering a couple times and did half an MBA between the last two. I did my undergraduate at Washington U in St. Louis. I bought farm to build on but didn't get it accomplished, but its making me money. And while I farmed it, it gave me a play ground for exercise and being outdoors.
Gerald J. | |
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Strip tillers- What rate and type of fertilizer are you using?
