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| Maintaining residue is always a concern but for 2017 I am not concerned. I actually feel that if we can stack two average-above average corn crops together that we have better residue than wheat stubble anyways. We take so long to canopy out here and we have fields that can just cycle nutrients so fast it feels like even good wheat stubble can just disappear midway through the corn crop. Corn on corn seems to be much better about placing high carbon residue on the ground. I have some pictures of 4th year dryland corn on corn that had so much residue that even June 10th it felt like it was too muddy to plant. It was leaving 6" deep residue on either side of the row. Now, if we enter into a hard drought we will start eating that away quickly, but in that case then wheat can become an option again. That is part of the problem, without vertical tillage, (I don't really want to do that) we have grown so much residue the last few years that no-tilling wheat direct into corn stalks I think this year specifically will cause a problem on getting a good stand. We are also going to be really late getting the corn off so wheat would be pretty late getting in. | |
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Why is Phosphorous so Expensive?
