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SW MN and Gold Canyon AZ | Jim if your going to raise corn on corn in SW MN you NEED as much black as possible.
Those strips would not cut it. First of all it wound't dry out as fast delaying planting, second the total soil temp would be much lower because your cutting the black area in half. We have to much clay here and lack of sunshine. Go 50 miles south and that changes.
Not saying you cound't grow corn, what i am saying is the heat units lost would have been the difference in having 20% corn and 55 lb TW vs 25% corn and 51 lb TW. Guys are stating that there fall worked bean stubble corn is way dryer than the non worked soils.
Even the U of M states that plowing is the best return on COC in MN. You NEED the heat!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Iowa guys-- any of you close enough to DNR & new rule re applying liquid manure to frozen ground???
