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Blue Earth, MN | Making spring strips on top of the fall strips. I'm starting to wonder about the fall strips especially in bean stubble. We have some very nice heavy soil where the fall strips were nice and we could have planted right into them. However, we have some soil where the fall strips like to "crust" over. Its nothing that a coulter couldn't cut through but the problem is underneath it is wet and could lead to some germination issues.
Our irrigated continuous corn, strip tilled field was the toughest residue I've been through. Very high yielding corn and we usually also put a later maturity number on that field. I couldn't believe the residue I was going through. Very impressive to say the least.
If every farmer in MN used either curvetines or some other closing wheel besides the standard rubber wheel, I'd bet the average yield this year in MN would jump up about 5-7 bushels. There is so much sidewall compaction this year. | |
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Raining AGAIN in S MN
