Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | Not sure how it applies to your situation, but we harvest spring wheat and flax with a stripper header, then plant into the tall standing straw with JD 750 drills. We have a lot better luck establishing the new crop in tall standing straw, rather than in cut straw laying across the path of the drill discs which hairpin quite badly.
Our drills are 7-1/2 inch spacing with the separate placement fertilizer option,that puts 3 rows of 12 openers over a 15 ft space. All those opener gauge wheels lay the standing straw 99% flat AFTER the seed is in the ground, so no hair pinning and the straw does not block sunlight getting to the new seedlings.
In our area that normally sees only around 17 inches of rain per year, the winter snow catch of the tall standing straw is worth a few bpa extra yield.
We have broken crp or native grass with only a glyphosate burndown and seed flax with the 750 drills. The crop has been good from the first year, grass to flax.
We have had good luck getting rid of small rocks or roughness from animal burrows / mounds in converted crp by running over it with a land roller before seeding.
Edited by Jon Hagen 11/22/2008 10:11
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No tilling into CRP question.
