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Minimum Tillage - Where?

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Riverslim

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I always say I have a rural background, not a real farm background. But I do have an old tractor. Seems around me that farmers work the heck out of their fields getting ready for planting. Has minimum tillage lessened? I noticed a farmer today that was using two big Krauses, each was set up with (from front to back) with disc blades, shovels, spike teeth and then what i call a crumbler.
 
That's minimum tillage. One pass. Vs no til or a complete tillage system including moldboard plowing and then more trips to fit the plowed ground.
 
no till on our dryland acres in the county growes every year. Its down to the last few diehards, that still till. irrigated guys who rotate do lots of no till, the corn after corn guys, tend to work the ground. personally; we're 100% no till on everything.
 
We no-till into the bean stubble but have to work the corn stalks. If you don't the ground doesn't warm up and we have had very bad stands. The last several years we have had two hundred bushel plus crops here. That leaves a lot of residue to handle.
We tried total no-till on a fifty acre field starting in 1998. We kept it no-till for five years. The corn yields declined each rotation and the beans stayed flat. We went back to tillage in 2004 and saw a twenty bushel yield jump in the corn. So on our ground here it does limit yields.
Now I have friends in other parts of the country that no-till with good results. I guess it is like my grand father always told me: Don't try to farm the neighbors farm unless you own the results"
 
In my part of southern MN we have real cold srpings, real heavy snow melts, real deep frosts, and very high clay soils.

No-till doesn't work.

Minimum till only rarely works.

A lot of guys have gone to rippers in fall instead of molboard plows, but as deep as the rippers go it sure isn't any less tillage.

For corn on corn, a lot of fellas pulled the plows out of the grove & are back to using them. Hard to get corn to grow in spring when you plant into 200+ bpa corn stubble, even with a ripperit leaves a lot of trash on top and cold soil.

It's a challenge. I wish no-till worked here, I really do - would love to save the time & fuel.

--->Paul
 
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