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Macon, IL | I am a not-tiller and going 100% corn next year. I am enrolled in a pretty good watershed program with NRCS and get a pretty good payment for not working ground. The past couple years I have made strips in the fall with Anhydrous bar and let them settle over the winter and planted into those strips in the spring. I have been very happy with the results. I use the bar from local FS which has straight coulter in front and dual disc sealers on the back.
But this fall it is wet wet wet here, I still have a month but in our area it gets tough to find many days after thanksgiving to get Anhydrous down.
If it would continue to stay wet and I would not get they Anhydrous done I see 2 options.
1) AMS (ADM is close by and I can get it relatively cheap)
2) Put down anhydrous in the spring.
My concern with #1 (AMS) is that I have seen inconsisten amount of N-and the one year I did use it 3 years back I was not terribly happy with it.
My concern with #2 (Spring Anhydrous) is that when I have made those strips in the fall it is pretty mounded up-but by spring has settled down pretty nice. If I make those strips in the spring I would be concerned about trying to plant into those-and how much ahead of planting I have to put the Anhydrous on.
I only farm about 260 acres and don't really want to have to put liquid on my planter if I could avoid it as my old 7000 planter is pretty weighted down with all the no-till stuff already.
What would you do if you couldn't get it on in the fall? Any advice much appreciated.
Paul
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No-Till Question-What if I don't get Anhydrous Down
