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Leesburg, Ohio | Ed: We do some no-till corn, but mainly min-till or conventional. Used to be all no no-till corn for about 8 or 10 years back in the late 80's/early 90's. Yields kept creeping lower every year. Been going mostly up since goin back to using some tillage. Trying some strips for the last two years, and still learning, but think maybe we can make that work on all but our steepest ground.
We're 100% no-till on beans (all drilled).
On using just one curvetine/spading wheel...first, I was cheap and wanted to try them without spending a ton. Secondly, it seems to me that in conventional tilled ground, a tine wheel would sink in too much and tend to disturb the seed more than it should, especially the straight spading wheels. The curvetine doesn't seem to have that issue, tho...just haven't spent the money to put the others on yet. Might do it this year.
Yes, we do use martin row cleaners on the front. I have floating martins, and plan to change this year to fixed face-mount cleaners like I used to have on the 7200. My old floating ones started cracking frames between the wheels last year...first trouble I've ever had with them. | |
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Spader closing wheels benefit Yes or No
