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Need Advice w/ No Till

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11-19-2006 17:10:55




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So, I've aquired about 20 acres of good bottom land for rent that has been just growing wild for the last 15 years. I have a White 5100 planter with interplant units that I will be setting up for no-till beans. I don't have any tillage equipment and our neighbors have quit and sold their equipment.

I'm currently going over the land with a rotary mower and leaving about 6" of stubble. Should I try and find a disk to run everything over and chop up the thatch or no till straight into it? I have my doubts this will disturb the soil much. There are a fair number of ant hills that I don't think the combine will like too much as well. I'm thinking a disk might help takes those out as well.

Any words of wisdom? Should I plan on running something besides no till coulters next spring?

Thanks,
Eric

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jddriver

11-20-2006 06:25:52




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 Re: Need Advice w/ No Till in reply to e, 11-19-2006 17:10:55  
Sray a burn down agent on it (round-up or something like it).At the most I would do is bush hawg it and then no till it.With it being fallow so many years the ground will be rid of compaction.Organic material on top of the ground is your freind.All adisc is going to do is pack the ground and all a fire is going to do is destroy ALL of the organic material that is there.



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Leland

11-19-2006 20:42:03




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 Re: Need Advice w/ No Till in reply to e, 11-19-2006 17:10:55  
Disk around the edges then drop a match in it to clean it up and kill a lot of weed seeds .



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Brett in KS

11-19-2006 18:26:39




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 Re: Need Advice w/ No Till in reply to e, 11-19-2006 17:10:55  
I think it would be a good idea to level the field someway. I think a light disking would work exellent. I guess if you don't do anything before you plant, and use a flex head to cut the beans, the ant hills would get leveled then ;-)



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jddriver

11-19-2006 18:21:18




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 Re: Need Advice w/ No Till in reply to e, 11-19-2006 17:10:55  
Do you have row cleaners?I would want them and if you have them they will do a great job of dist ant hills.A good mag is no till farmer



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IaGary

11-19-2006 17:54:40




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 Re: Need Advice w/ No Till in reply to e, 11-19-2006 17:10:55  
Eric

Don't know where you are but here in Iowa they would spray with roundup in the fall (to late here in Iowa)and just plant into the stubble in the spring.

You might just use a drag harrow to level the ant hills in the spring. Or a harrowgater would be more aggresive.

Your coulters may be enough for planting.

Gary



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