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NEILFarmer
Posted 6/28/2012 08:51 (#2454264 - in reply to #2454064)
Subject: Re: greener where ripped


Morris, IL
mhagny - 6/28/2012 05:49

NEILFarmer - 6/27/2012 21:27  About the sidewall compaction above. I found the strip till to have no sidewall compaction or very little. Basically when i was digging i couldn't find where disc went. Conventional broke apart in halves easily. Any idea? This was all normal deere rubber wheels.

Same soil texture and field history?  Same down-pressure?  Planted under identical moisture conditions, or was the strip-till slightly drier?  (perhaps imperceptibly to us, but the roots know)



The strip-till was wetter. The conventional tillage was dry this year everywhere, the tillage equipment just dried out the soil. Both had enough moisture to plant 2" but strip till i could have planted 1.5".

Same soil texture besides one being worked and one not, same field history, same down pressure setting although conventional drew more pressure. If i had enough setting i could have taken off 50-75lb. the strip till.

Will say this, the strip till was dryer for top 1" then the conventional.

Edited by NEILFarmer 6/28/2012 08:53
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