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Southwest Illinois | I guess we are the exception. We normally till all our ground going to beans. We had two farms that roll that we didn't work in case it got dry enough to notill. It was and we notilled these last farms and they went in perfect. The one farm is seperated by a lane and the field to the north was tilled and planted the same day. The beans planted in notill are easily 4" shorter. In fact we post sprayed them a week later than the beans planted in tilled ground. While we saved 3 tillage trips I have 3 sprayer trips in the no till vs one trip in the tilled beans. In the no till beans we have about $35 per acre in pre emerge chems plus glyphosate vs about $3.50 in chemicals in the tilled fields. So the extra chem easily offsets the tillage passes and then some. Yield will still be the telling tale but I am dissapointed so far in the early season growth in the no till fields. | |
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This talk about the drought: Tilled vs. No-till
