Rawson zone till planting

Al Baker(pumpman) · Nov 22, 2016

I installed a Rawson three coulter zone till on my JD7000 conservation till planter. I used it a few seasons before taking a break from row crops. I am getting the itch to start raising some grain again. Anyone else use the rawson system? If so did like, or dislike it? Al

lenray · Nov 23, 2016

Rawsons farm an 80 across the road from me..55 tillable. They go in there with 6 Big JD combines. They really have the equipment......

NY 986 · Nov 23, 2016

I've have a zone-till which was on my 7000 for many years and transferred it to the 1750 planter when I bought it a few years ago. I use it as a minimum tillage tool as opposed to the true zone-till system. When I first bought it I ran a true zone-till system on a few select fields. In a nut shell it worked pretty well in sandy and loamy soils. Clay or any variation had to be on a slope as damp spring conditions on the level menat the soil was too slow to warm up. Further flat clay was a hindrance in zone-till if the growing season was cool and damp. Drainage issues are more pronounced in a zone-till system so subsurface drainage becomes a lot more important. Zone-tilled crops do not root out into the topsoil layer and further down so fertility and soil pH becomes very important in the top 4-6 inches of the top soil layer. For me without a great increase in subsurface drainage which I could not financially do it did not pay the dividends that a minimum tillage system or variation there of did.

JD John · Nov 23, 2016

I don't use rawson coulters, but neither do Rawsons anymore. Their farm is just a few miles from me and everyone around here used their coulters when they first came out, not to many left that do use them now. Rawsons don't do the no-till like they did at one time. Seen them in a field last year plowing again.

Rawson zone till planting

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