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McLeod County, MN | These are the best I can do. All from 2018. I chiseled stalks in the fall of 2017 (225+ residue). Hit it once in the spring with my 960 FC. I have martin floating row cleaners on the planter. I set them a little deep so they plow a bit of a trench. When I roll the brillion rides on the ridges and then I dont get any extra compaction on the row itself. My feeling is this will be an immense help if we get a hard rain (crusting issues).
You can see from the pictures that it wont pulverize the soil and seal up pore space like a smooth roller. The notched blade kinda help to pin some of the residue, but not all of it. Its not heavy enough to bury football and basketball sized rocks, but I dont care about those. I will pick them or my header will float over them. I want it to push the softball sized rocks in, and it does a great job of that. Those are the rocks I fear. By the time fall rolls around the ground has mellowed out and the little trenches that I plowed with the planter are pretty well gone. Its really working well for me and I am quite satisfied with it.
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