I have seen a Pluribus strip till customer in a 50/50 corn bean rotation who used a Kinze 15" splitter planter to no till 15" beans into 30" strip tilled corn stubble. What was especially interesting is that this MN customer pulled a folding Brillion 30 ft cultipacker type roller with his 30 ft Kinze Twinline 15" bean planter. He planted his beans in line with and (theoretically) 7.5" off of the corn row. The cultipacker knocked down any remaining corn stalks into contact with the soil in addition to pushing down rocks and smoothing for bean harvest. Worked pretty slick with no additional trips. His beans were excellent as far as I recall. Even heavy bt stalks broke down nicely under the beans when the cultipacker kinked them down. Easy to strip till for the next corn crop. It just didn't scale up very well when he went to 60 ft as I recall. FWIW. Jim at Dawn |