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Northeast Louisiana | We plant most crops especially corn and cotton on raised beds, and a pull type planter is too hard to turn around and get back lined up for the next pass. From what I've seen, y'all leave wide turn areas then plant around the field, but we can't do that on beds. Most row crop equipment down here is 3pt, except for disks and large field cultivators which are used on flat ground. Planters, harrows, rollers, hippers or busters are all mounted, even the 12 row 40" equipment. Many drills are mounted too, as many of us drill beans and even wheat on beds. These beds are usually refreshed every fall as soon as harvest is done. This is the same reason you don't see very many articulated 4wd tractors down here except on scrapers. About the only thing you can do with them is field cultivate or disk, and we do less and less of that anymore.
I know the next question, why raised beds? Mainly for drainage. Yeilds of corn, cotton, and soybeans are all higher on raised beds here in the flat MS River Delta. Also allows for soil to dry and warm up quicker in the spring. And we have many precision leveled fields down here where we irrigate with poly pipe running the water down the middles between the rows.
Edited by Deadduck 4/11/2007 12:39
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Planter question for the Southern farmers
