Just plant at an angle to the NH3 slots/ridges with a planter with good NON-Floating unit faceplate mounted row cleaners and heavy duty down pressure springs, airbags or hydraulic down pressure set high enough to enable the row unit to part the "ridges" rather than float up and down over them. You may need to add weight to the planter frame to provide enough weight to transfer. This is not hard to do on freshly made spring NH3 "ridges". Running at an angle will also decrease the likelihood of erosion down those ridges/slots if you get a big rain. The row cleaners will intermittently fill in the slots. Being it is no till other than the nh3 the soil should be firm enough to support the row unit gage wheels. I repeat you do NOT want to use floating row cleaners in this approach. They will float up and over the ridges rather than part them. This approach works best with simple unit faceplate mounted row cleaners located back as close to the row unit gage wheels as possible. If you are wet in S IL as it appears you are or will be I would not make any more passes over the ground than necessary to just get the seed in the ground. Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 4/1/2014 00:29
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