NWNODAK - 10/28/2016 16:15 djmranch - 10/28/2016 10:55
What are you doing for tillage? We spring strip till for corn into wheat stubble using a cover crop of radish, rye, and turnip mostly and don't see a yield drag after wheat. We are in nwmn even with Grand Forks so should be similar climate. You really can't plant wheat after corn without big fusarium problems, so if you have wheat in the rotation with corn and beans I still think corn-beans-wheat and back to corn is the best rotation. We are long term no till on all acres. Only crop we till anything is vertical till ahead of corn. We plant corn ground to beans, flax or maybe canola. We raised 7 different crops this year so we have some options on rotations. Have you got residue managers for your corn planter? Of course we are quite a few miles se of you, but if we leave our spring wheat stubble standing, then no-till the corn, with just using the residue managers to remove the wheat residue away from the row, that we don't seem to have a yield drag following spring wheat. We are long term no-till also. I think why we can get by with that is our soil structure has improved over the years leading to more permanent poor space, so with the tillage action of the seed opener, plus some residue removal from over the row, there is less concern with the seed slot being too cold. That has been our experience here anyway. | 
Corn on wheat stubble vs bean stubble?
