eweland - 4/23/2014 16:02 I am currently set up for 6 row, largest tractor is in that 160hp range. I don't have to knife the liquid portion on either. I bed with sand so most of my lagoon is solids hauled by slinger in the fall, the liquid is mostly grey water. I also am using a bit of a different crop rotation so I would be planting most of my corn acres into stubble from double cropping trit/peas followed by sorghum Sudan grass/teff grass or winter trit stubble. Would that still be best to strip it? Most of the previous years corn silage stubble would be drilled into trit/peas for haylage and cut high to avoid surface manure and stalks. Maybe this is a really bogus plan? Are you full no ti iseedit? Where are you located? And I meant a 750 Deere drill (damn fat fingers) There are a couple strip tillers in east central mn, that possible could do a few strips for you or you could check out there conditions and compare to yours. Hopefully - they'll chime in. I no-till beans into corn residue - been at it since '98. Was a wheat / bean rotation on sandy loam / gravel type soils at first. Now, in clay / clay loams, it's corn / bean rotation. If I continue, I want to get into strip till for corn in bean stubble then no-till with 750 in corn residue for beans. I'd guess your 160 hp would handle 6 row decently - if you're in the sandy loam type soils. Hopefully, some of the strip-tillers will chime in with their soil types and experiences. Have you checked with your extension office ? They should be helpfully with info and possible EQUIP funds for equipment? I'm not far - south of st cloud, down I-94
Edited by iseedit 4/23/2014 16:51
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No tilling in the north
