Coulters or not?

I bought a 7000 Deere 3 years ago and bought used yetter units with row cleaners and coulters. I am putting new openers on the row units themselves, and was told by a neighbor who no tills a lot of ground that I would be better off to run only the row cleaners to no till corn and beans since the "crust" would fall back onto the furrow when using coulters and effect emergence. Thoughts please, do you run with the coulters, with the row cleaners, or both?

Yes that is the going thing today.

Row cleaners and no coulters for notill into corn or bean stubble.

May what coulters if you are notilling into sod.

Gary

Ih air planter....no coulters or row cleaners. been that way since 1992. starting year 21 of no-tilling!

In hard ground and sod you need the coulters. I have never seen the case where the coulters caused a problem. As far as a "crust" falling back in??? I have no clue as to what he is talking about. Now If you are running real wide fluted coulters they can cause issues with drying the ground out by working too wide a seed zone. Around here they usually use a 3/4 bubble coulter that did not do much but start the seed trench. Also you want the coulter to be a little higher than the double disk openers. Let them form the seed trench. So if you are planting 1 1/2 inches then the coulters need run at 1 inch.

I run a 25 wave 3/4 inch wide coulter with row cleaners. Mine is a Dawn set up. I like the depth adjustment better then the Yetter pin and hole setup. I also run cover chains to rub out the press wheel tracks. They will wash in a real heavy rain. I tried the spiked closing wheels and they did not work in my soil type. Not good enough soil to seed contact.

What I have found out in no-tilling is that different planter/attachments will work different on different farms/soil types. So what you neighbor does a 1/4 mile from you may not work well on your ground.

I would start with what you have and then just adjust as you go along and learn your ground.