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North Central Indiana | We have been 95% notill every year for many years and some of the notill is in cover crops. The notill definitely looks worse than the tilled ground everywhere. Not just ours but also the neighbors. I just sprayed a field that was 1/3 worked 2/3 notill and the stand and height was incredibly better where it was tilled. We have sand, sandy loam, clay, yellow clay, white clay, and muck and it hold true this year in all of it. So will we notill next year? You bet. This is one of the few years and definitely the worst we have seen for notill in our part of the world. There just wasn't enough moisture to get it started. When we worked the ground, it brought moist soil to the top and it took of immediately. July and and August usually makes the notill shine however as the roots on the tilled soil hit compaction layers. The combine always tells the story. Just my 2 cents. | |
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This talk about the drought: Tilled vs. No-till
