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Grundy County, Iowa | We’ve no-tilled beans into corn stalks for 25 years. Beans never grow as fast or look as pretty as tillage but too many advantages including $$ to work the ground. The problem this year appears to be the residue from 250 bushel corn last fall. And the wind. The wind piled corn stalks along fence lines and even in the field. Had a poor stand some places.
We do some cover crop and worked that in with a vertical tillage machine. That cures the residue problem. But that blows too on occasion.
We run normal knife rolls on a 612 corn head. They need replacing. We’re wondering about Calmer’s rolls or 360 chain rolls. When cut that fine does the residue blow more or less. Anyone with any experience? | |
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Corn residue blowing
