You won't have the opportunity to learn the answer.  I got tired of waiting for notill to dry out enough to plant and posted a similar question in 1995.  A farmer in Iowa said take your notill coulter off.  What?  NoTill without a coulter?  I did it and had a good crop and never had to wait.  I modified the planter and learned to plant in the tackiest soil you can imagine when the neighbors were itching to get the field cultivator out and go "air out some ground to plant."  I never did like the idea of what the tillage point did to the wet soil it pushed.


I do have to level out fields once in awhile for the soybean table to scoop up all the beans.  Flat notill land will wash here because most of Ohio is silt loam soil.  Corn years, not a problem, the row unit can handle the deviation and the header isn't trying to cut pods 3 inches off the surface.

I figure if the moo and manure guys can notill then I surely can.

This thread is a good advertizement for notill and I am glad to see it.

Ed