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Driftless SW Wisconsin | We did a corn on corn strip till demo in the spring of 05 in a particularly windy area of NE SD. The customer had shredded the stalks in the fall thinking he needed to due to high yield and a lot of residue.
When we entered the field to do the demo, there were places in the field that were bare ground with soil visible and there were other places where the wind had piled stalks a foot deep or more. We did just put the coals to it and made strips - you had to set it for the foot deep piles.
The point that was again driven home to us that day is that the strip till year starts in the fall at combine time - just under the feeder house. Harvesting corn as high as possible, leaving as much stalk as possible upright and still attached to the ground serves many useful functions in strip till.
Running large singles on the combine, spaced to run ON the just-harvested row keeps the combine axle loads out of the middles where you will be stripping and planting the next crop. Older JD cast iron stalk rolls actually work better than knife rolls for strip tilled corn on corn. A knife roll leaves a lot of loose "fluff" which can blow as discussed above and also leaves an 8 or 10" tall spike which is very tough on tires compared to a 20" stalk which will push over and provide better traction rather than into a tire causing obvious wear.
I'll add a couple pictures of spring strip till into windblown fall shredded E SD corn stalks. Although as you can see we didn't do too bad a job, it is tough to make a consistent strip in these very uneven conditions. Please leave the stalks attached to the ground and standing as much as possible!
Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 7/3/2006 01:45
 (Dawn Striptill Corn on Corn spring strips in winblown fall shredded sd stalks dsc00530 0405.JPG)
 (Dawn Striptill 1572 combo into shredded heavy corn_536_4-16-05.jpg)
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 Dawn Striptill Corn on Corn spring strips in winblown fall shredded sd stalks dsc00530 0405.JPG (85KB - 280 downloads)
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