East central Iowa, Camanche, Iowa | If you elect to till it you have just negated what you gained over the years of no tillage. You have a tremendous reserve of slow release carbon nutrition ready to be used by your crops. Tilling "burns" that carbon by exposing it to an abundance of air causing an explosion of microbial activity decomposing that tilth. Take advantage of that carbon "Bank" by not disturbing that tilth and allow for a slow release decomposition of nutrients that can be taken up by you crops.
Burning or baling the fall before and an early burndown in the spring with give you a great seedbed to plant into. You have to allow for that root mass to decompose in the seed zone to get good seed to soil contact.
One thought is to strip till to get you a good seed bed and leave the rest of the soil profile alone. Just a thought. |
Taking CRP out 1 more time
