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| The last time we had corn-on-corn, we worked it once with a DMI 527B in the fall, twice with the TMII field cultivator in the spring, the planted it. That was our highest yeilding field that season. I prefer to leave stalks standing a little bit rather than grind them up so they get matted on the top over the winter --- I think that is worse than a few standing. Of course, you need trash management equipment on your plnater.
A lot depends on how you are applying the pig manure. If you're using a pull type spreader, you have tons of compaction and need something pretty heavy duty, such as the DMI.
We now have a 530B DMI, but if you have sticky compacted soil conditions, you won't budge it with a 8400 JD. We pull ours with 350 hp 4wd, but we have some very very very heavy and stick ground in Minnesota. The 527 is excellent and would be a good size match. We pulled our 527B with a FWA for a while, then a 9230 Case IH (which was a perfect combination). | |
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what ripper to use for corn on corn
