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| Ken, I hope you don't mind, but I would like to interject in here.....
1) re: lime. You just apply it on top. Many guys try to get in done in the fall - it seems the soils are in better shape (less chance of creating ruts in the fall). The comment I would make is: you apply lime in no-till the same you would to a permanent hay field. You can't incorporate, so you don't. Quite frankly, I've never encountered a problem doing it this way.
2) What kinds of soils do you have that you are having trouble getting no-till to work in? If you know the soil name, I would be interested in hearing it.
3) Just a comment about Kingbaby's farm... when he harvested corn silage, he follows with a fall rye or wheat silage crop, so he is growing a crop year-round. I suspect many guys do not do that. And I think that would help with getting rainfall into the soil. Just a thought.
I would also like to say that I believe if you have a cover crop growing, you are less likely to track a field up when it is slightly wet, compared to a field that is bare. Answer this question for me...... for a guy who spreads manure daily (say a small-time dairy farmer), where is he likely to go when the fields are wet? The answer typically is: a hay field, especially a grass field, where the root mass will help support the manure spreading equipment. A cover crop can act in the same way if you get it planted soon enough to have some topgrowth and root mass. | |
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No Tillers?
