West Union, IOWA FLOLO Farm 52175 | Thanks for all the info so far.
Alittle more about my intentions and current practices- currently my main form of tillage is my old Krause disc, which I know most will condem but it works "here", I set it to run no deeper then an inch and pull it with a lite 100hp tractorin standing cornstalks in the fall when we tend to have very dry condititions and then plant either corn or beans directly in the spring in a "stale" seedbed. My goal in this pass is to knock the residue down and get it in contact with the soil to speed up brakedown, previous to doing this I was dealing with several inches of residue on top waiting for the worms to kick in. The disc does a good job of tacking residue and leveling ridges, while not bringing up our plentiful fist size rocks and creating another problem. My main goal originally with the disc was to reduce residue levels the yr follwing beans and notilling corn into beans but, the side benifits I've noticed are better stand counts in beans allowing me to back down the population and smoother fields allowing for easier spraying and combining. All of this while acheiving the original goal of freeing up nutrients and better seed bed yr 2 for corn. I found a dealer in Iowa that has a Flexicoil on hand so I might check him out when I get a chance. I'd better add that my soils are mainly Glacial till loams and vary greatly with up to 20 different soil types in any given 80, I try to notill as much as possible but I'd be waiting an extra week or 2 in the spring to let some feilds even out in the spring even though they're all pattern tiled where needed--loran
again thanks for the help with the mental gymnastics--loran :p
Picture should show worm activity and soil profile taken this spring while fixing tile
Edited by loran 9/5/2006 09:49
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