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stripfarmer
Posted 4/21/2014 10:05 (#3828529)
Subject: Corn on corn on blow sand


west central wisconsin

Hi all.     I have a piece of rented, irrigated, blow sand that we plan to rotate back to corn.  There are 80 acres, half of which we removed the stalks from for bedding, the other half has standing stalks left from last fall's grain harvest.  If spring would have arrived early, we were hoping to remove the stalks as bedding so we wouldn't have to deal with them.  Now our choices are are to shred the stalks, then do deep tillage, them finish tillage and deal with the trash and tie up of nutrients, or no til between the old rows.  We are a dairy, so corn offers more options than beans, or we would no til for sure,.  Looking for input and experience.  This is very coarse, low fertility sand that ends up being high input ground because it requires water and lots of nutrients added to grow a good crop.  We have liquid starter ( 2 x 2 ) on our new to us planter, with Martin trash wheels, and planned to put down 10 or 12 gallons of 10-34-0 and some zinc.  This is a square field, so we should be able to straddle last year's rows, but we don't have gps, and we switched from a 6 to an 8 row planter also.  Anyone care to share wisdom or experience?  Thanks in advance

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