Posted by JD Seller on November 22, 2016 at 19:49:35 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: No Till discussion posted by Dave from central MN on November 22, 2016 at 12:39:57:
No till is like religion. Many have different opinions about it. Some will argue it is the best thing there is and others will tell you it is evil all of the time. To me no till just makes raising a good crop too risky. IF the weather is RIGHT then it works great. If the weather is WRONG it can be a train wreck. I can't take that kind of risks on high value ground. The land cost will not let you survive a wipe out very often around here.
You want to see a wipe out in no till around here all you have to do is one of several things. 1) Plant too early and the soil be too cold. The poor seedling vigor will show up all summer long. 2) Plant in a little too wet of ground and have it turn dry. Seed germinates over a months time and the yields are hammered.
Now take bean stubble in May after two weeks of 70 degree days and no till will look like the only way to plant.
All I can say is I have tried it several times over the last 30 years. In soybean stubble it will work fairly regularly. Soybeans in late May or early June will work. Corn stalk ground in early to Mid April may work or may not. It seems to work about 75% of the time around here. The other 25% of the time it can be terrible. It usually is real bad when it does not work.
I can take my tillage practices and produce a good crop 95% of the time. Year in and year out. So I will stick to what has been successful for me on the ground I farm. Your welcome to try any type of practice on your ground/farm. I would hate to tell you what will work or not work on your farm with your practices. In my years of selling equipment I found different things worked on very similar farms while other things would not work. So I just decided to let people try things for themselves.
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