Central Nebraska | Ed Winkle - 3/21/2013 11:26
Each tillage pass removes one half inch of water.
Why would you even till BenP?
Ed
I ridge till and had 8 row equipment. The right opportunity came along to go 12 row. On most of my ground, my guess rows are way too far apart to make it work using the same ridges (a lot of my ridges are 10+ years old, dating to when Grandpa still farmed some of this ground), so I need to tear them out to make new ridges. Plus going with autosteer, the old ridges need to go. I'm going to run the rolling stalk chopper once and disk once and make it work. I didn't shred any stalks last fall, so I'm hoping by only making two passes, there will be residue left on top to help keep some moisture and stop soil from blowing. It's not an ideal situation and I'm nervous about it, but the opportunity to upgrade equipment was too good to pass up. I can water most of my corn up with a pivot if I have to. I gotta believe it'll rain sometime this spring. |
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