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Martinsville, Ohio | Trash is always a concern with spiked closing wheels but the advantages outweight the problems.
Number one is learn how to turn them into dust, many farmers spread AMS or some form of N in the fall, winter, early spring.
Bt cornstalks have become a big problem for many, the enzymes won't let the plant break down naturally, that is how they kill bugs.
The Dawn's in the picture have too much curve for me, do less tillage and are subject to stalk catching.
The Martin's are more up and down like real tilling wheels but they can plug too.
Anything can.
We have come so far in notill, we need to learn more.
If you split the stalks with a single disk fertilizer coulter, sweep the path clean with little soil disruption with the planter, the spiked wheels shouldn't be that much of a problem.
With 18.5 inches in 30 inch rows, you are going to hit a row of stalks.
Any opening or closing system is going to give you problems in a row of stalks without tillage before the planter.
I think you can manage them.
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spike closing wheels in corn stalks
