John If you want reduce your run off sediment. Try sod water ways. You don't plow your ravines where your water runs across the field. Yes you loose some yield from lost production but you still have your soil. My grandfather plowed all the field at first. It got so you couldn't cross them with a D-4 cat. So dad tells. He had to put chicken wire and stakes with straw in them . They filled in from there. This must have been in the 30's or 40's. I am seeing where some of them have caught so much sediment the bottom is now to one side or the other of the grass. I now have to leave patches alternately to make sure I don't get the same previous problem beside there. With 30 years of dairy cows we applied alot of manure too. This was plowed down years ago. We have gone to some Nothrill. I do some beans, and no corn with it. Corn must be tilled ground to get a yield. I can throw a cat through the field and not hit anything in Nothrill corn. My brother nothrilled all his corn this year. The stalks were spindly and the wet spots drowned out bad. I do believe there are soils that Nothrill works on better. Lighter ground will work better than heavier ground will. I have had some of my best beans on Nothrill also. The best are usually on the ground we tilled though. When we leave the water ways we just lift the tillage equipment up and drop it again. Just enough for the water to run on the sod. We plant through them if it grows fine if not then so be it. Yes it is not a nice pretty field with them in the field. The dirt is still in the field though. The waterways do really help with your run off though. I give the neighbors place for the example the BTO that works that will have 50acres into 3 pieces in another year or 2 from the erosion. The washes are already to the point he has to work around them. This place did not have any of that when we worked it 25-30 yearsago.
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