The picture you see with the grass in the corn is where the ground is not so good because of it being moved to make the terraces. In a year with growing issues the corn there will not be very good. The dry weather made the corn on the top of the hills around here not be very good. Maybe 50-60 bushels per acre. It being smaller made some late season grasses come in. The lower ground made it back up. This field is averaging 150-160 for the whole field.
These pictures all are in North-east Iowa about 30 miles west of Dubuque.
As for Iowa having flat ground. Many people think the prairie was flat but most of it was rolling. Iowa does have flat parts, mostly the north central and north-west parts. The rest of the state is mostly rolling.
As for farming the hills. I have some field that have 15% slopes in them. With contour strips and planting on the contour as well we can farm them most years with very little erosion. No-till does not work very well on our soil types. I have tried it and others here too. You have a 20-30 bushel yield drag in the corn. In soybeans it is not as mush so there are some no-till soybeans.
I usually cover the majority of my crop ground with manure so I need to incorporate it so I usually use tillage of some type. Mostly chisel plowed and hit with a soil finisher. So you still have a lot of residue left.
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