scmn_06 - 9/14/2011 07:16 This is the way the U of M wants you to raise COC. 1) Chop stalks 2) Apply "plow down" 3) Use a "vertical tillage" disk like a Case IH 330 4) Plow (a Tebben works just as well if you dont have a plow) 5) Use the Case IH 330 again to justify the cost of the unit over "more acres" 6) 220 lbs of N in fall as NH3 7) Spring field cultivate 8) Apply pre emerge with 30 lbs of N 9) Field cultivate again to further improve leveling 10) Plant, all Smart Stack corn--no refuge, no in furrow fertilizer 11) Post emerge spray 12) Go on vacation for rest of summer. 13) Come back and harvest 140 bushel corn. I raise COC a little differently 1) Fall broadcast of either AMS or gypsum along with K on soils that are very low in K 2) Fall strip till applying P and K based on crop removals 3) Spring strip freshening is optional but can be a useful way of applying N faster. If conditions are good, we just plant directly into strip 4) Plant corn, use insecticide. Use of RW traited corn is optional since the economic benefit is lower when compared to insecticide. Use in furrow phosphorus and a little K, and micros. IF not applied any N through the strip freshening, then apply some N and S in a 3x0 manner. 5) Pre-emerge spray with 35 lbs of N and use an inhibitor 6) Side dress remaining N requirement. 7) If crop looks like it has awesome potential, will top dress another shot of N as urea late but yet still get the tractor and spinner cart through the crop. 8) Scout crop routinely throughout summer 9) Take a week vacation 10) Harvest and wonder why we continue to plant beans when the COC throttles the beans economically.