Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | greasegun - 7/2/2009 23:16
I have ran a stripper head and a platform side by side. When going back with notill DC soybeans or sunflowers, the shorter straw yeilded significantly higher yeilds of both sb and flowers which made no sense to me since I assumed the shaded ground would conserve more moisture. I finally talked to a university prof that explained to me in Nebr they had discovered the early shaded plants grew more rapidly thus becoming elongated and weaker,thus lower yeilding.
Interesting, and makes sense.
I have not seen that, probably due to the straw / stubble flattening ability of our seeding equipment.
we run 15 ft 750 drills on 7.5 inch rows with the separate placement(mid row bander option) . what is called the double box drills.
This setup has 36 openers / gauge wheels on a 15 ft drill, so every bit of stubble is run over by a gauge wheel and flattened to the ground. we end up with straw ground cover that is all laid flat and does not shade the seedlings.
I never thought about it, but I suppose that helps.
Edited by Jon Hagen 7/2/2009 01:30
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Shelbourne stripper head pros/cons
