You're kind of at the crossroads for stubble management where the hoe drill likes short straw and the disk drill likes the long straw like from the stripper headers. Maybe reevaluate your residue management and rotations to fit your drill and of course get a disk drill in your fields to see how it will really work for you. Our eyes were opened when we ran both drills together in the same fields and how much different the crop was at harvest time. We did that for 4-5 years. If you like the looks of what your drill is doing then hang with it because your cost of running it should be a lot less than a disk drill over the years. It was for us anyway and having higher yields to boot was a nice benefit as well as better protein levels and other quality benefits.
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