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Northeast Louisiana | When I worked for Monsanto in Memphis, we had a lot of midwestern guys come down from St. Louis that had never seen a cotton field. The first question was always why we had raised beds. The first time I was asked that, I kind of stumbled around for the answer. I had an ag degree, but planting cotton on beds was so commonplace that I never had given it any thought.
I have some land that isn't suitable for cotton that I always plant soybeans on. It's probably been 5 or 6 years since it's seen a plow, and that was because we'd rutted it up. In our bedded fields, if we don't irrigate down the middles, we may go several years of strickly no till, using the old beds. But if we are running water down the middles, we've learned the hard way that it won't water well if the rows aren't refreshed every year, so we usually run a set of hippers or nowdays a Buster/Roller over the old rows in the fall to pull them back up. When spring comes, we burn down and plant, and no till after that.
One thing I like about the forum is getting to see how things are done in other parts of the country.
Have a good one,
Keith | |
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Planter question for the Southern farmers
