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ecmn | Strip till. Keeps your fertilizer away from all the corn residue and still makes a very good seed bed to plant on without all the work of taking a smooth field making it rough to make it smooth again. On the lighter ground you start to get the benefit of keeping All That Corn residue on the surface.
On the lighter ground the strip till will really make your fertilizer program better. Or how do you say a lot more bang for your buck.
Them spots that are .5% of organic matter and not much clay underneath them we're probably the spots that improved the most after a few years of no till/ strip till. Historically you had corn on the rest the field at 150 that spot would be 40 to 50 at best. After several years of no-till strip till if the field is 150 bu corn that spot is getting close to 100 bushel
The corn roots are doing more for your soil than any tillage could as far as fighting compaction and building soil structure. | |
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Corn on corn tillage management
