Posted by The tractor vet on July 16, 2015 at 08:28:11 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Drain tile does help posted by onefarmer on July 15, 2015 at 17:53:25:
And one more thing that really helps on a wet year and a DRY year , Deep ripping . Breaking up the hard pan layer . We started doing this a couple years ago. We saw results on one rented field that has some wet weather spots that always made it hard to get thru and on the top of the hill there was a tough clay layer that was hard and even with new shears on the plow you could not get more then five or six inches deep and corn did not do well at all and really was a waist of time even planting up there . We found a landoll chisel that someone barn yard engineered into a deep tillage tool by using five DMI parabolic shanks and set it up like a DMI Tiger . We put new seven and a half inch Tiger points on it and went at it . DMI block man told us that we did not have enough tractor , for the most part he was correct as i could not get the 14 inches in one pass but i could get 12 inches . So i had to go over it twice . Yep i found rocks that have not seen the light of day in a million or so years but they are no longer in the fields , the wet spots are 90% better and that dry hard knob now grows corn . This year with the monsoons is the one that will impress ya , last fall i went and ripped all the silage corn ground and i was able to run the full depth on the first pass but we added a extra piece to the upper shanks for more soil movement in the top six inches . We were vary impressed with the results once again (1) over the winter and spring we did not have any erosion that we would have had if we had done anything to the fields , (2) thise fields we the first to dry out and warm faster (3) we have NO wet spots in these field this ever . The corn is the same from the tops of the hills down in the bottoms where it is usually wet . The water is going down thru into the sub soil . Your hard pan is what is killing you , you need to break up the hard pan layer between the tile lines so that the water that is laying between the lines can drain to the lines . On a dry year your corn roots can go deeper for the moisture deep down in the soil , a corn root can only go to the hard pan. What also so i can tell ya is we need another 50-60 more ponys and atleast 5-8000 lbs more weight and four wheel drive as our turned up 1066 does ok but still not enough I can run first high but even with radial duals loaded and a full rack on the nose i will either spin out or stand her up or it will spin the rim inside the tires . Done the latter four times now.
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