Mid-Michigan | barren - 2/7/2019 10:23
Like many others on here rolling worked rolling ground increases erosion. Have witnessed it first hand in addition to causing emergence problems with soybeans. Get a hard rain after planting, then dry weather, and the soil crusts over. Beans after beans makes it worse. If you have rolling land just get the rocks picked up and notill. Rocks stay where they belong.
I was wondering if anyone on here sees what we do here in my area with a cultipacker. Almost everyone here who conventionally tills (90% of everyone), has a cultipacker. Most are brillions. Almost all are pulled behind a cultivator. A few behind a disc. Nobody just pulls a cultipacker alone behind a tractor. Here, it's used to break up lumps. In heavy cornstalks, you can get away with overusing it because the fodder will prevent working the ground to powder (clay). Here if you work our heavy clay to powder and seal it right over, then plant, and get a hard rain, you are screwed. No soybean or corn plant on earth will bust through that crust. Nice loamy black dirt that doesn't crust you can get away with over using that tool. As far as the big rollers? A few guys here are using them. Most only for stones. I see most parked behind the barn. Gotta say, it does look like nice combining for soybeans.
Edited by AGB 2/7/2019 21:06
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