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Any one in MN ready to start tillage?

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Dave from MN

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I know she is a bit cold right now, but looks like it is supposed to warm up this week. I am hoping to disk in last years corn stalks this week so any corn or seed will have a few weeks to germinate or rot, as that feild will be beans this year. I plan on spreading chicken manure on last years bean ground and then disking in just before I can plant corn. Last years rye feild will be corn this year as well, I have a real thick layer of volunteer rye coming up and was planning on spraying with round up, covering the feild with chick and cow manure and discing in just before planting corn as well. I just am not sure if I will be wasting available nitrogen letting the rye thrive for a couple weeks. I was hoping to use it a green manure and to add humus to the light soil. Any thoughts on that?
 
The rye will use some N, then release it back again as it decomposes. That could leave the corn short on N early on, but with the added manure, you should have a real good thing going there. The manure will likewise release fertilizer slowly, but you will get a small early shot & should work out well.

Don't know if you need a little extra N tho, typically you are short on N or overloaded on P if you try to rely on just manure for fertility.

--->Paul
 
Ran through wheat stubble with disc-chisel on Saturday.Plowed old alfalfa field for neighbor.A little greasy in the corn ground.

Hey Dave,is there alot of corn fields over that didn't get plowed last fall? Over half here.Winter came in fast and stayed.Alot of us got caught with our shorts down.(SE MN.)
 
I am hoping to get out to my inlaws fields this week to start plowing. Didn't get a chance to plow under the 2 fields of corn, and have 1 field of oats to plow under, we are spreading sheep manure on it. We are located in Alexandria.
 
I'd sure get soil samples and keep tight records on them both before and after your applications. And then this fall to see what you need to do in spring 10. I know neighbors who spend 60 thousand dollars input on a quarter of corn and won't spend 40 dollars for several soil tests.

Gordo
 
Chisel plowed my sudangrass stubble on Saturday. Seemed like the field was dryer than it ever got last year until August. The field is clay gumbo so it really should have been fall plowed, but deer hunting and the early freeze got in the way. Hopefully we get quite a few more nightly freezes and some decent rain or I'll be seeding alfalfa into a field of clay "rocks".
 
I plowed up about 20 acres in NW Wisconsin on saturday, it went great, still a little frost right next to the treeline. All the bad weather has missed us, I'm a little concerned about drought however, things are quite dry here. Hope the pattern changes soon and we get some rain.
 
Very few people were able to do any fall tillage. I think a few managed to get his all done and a few others did some. Alot of corn feilds need to be tilled, in fact there is still alot of corn still needing harvesting. Pretty slick in some areas.
 
Yeah, I'm hoping the weather doesn't make up for the deluge over last two years with drought years.

So far this year, it seems that the Northern Wisconsin drought has extended all the way down here into SE MN. I hope it doesn't last. Having seen what has happened to Northern WI over the past 8 years or so, I can't imagine how bad it would be if that happened down here.
Drought Map Mar 31, 2009
 
Things are getting very dry here in SE MN. We are about 9 inchs below normal. Sure hope it starts raining soon or it won't even pay to plant corn this year. As for oats I'am going to start planting tommorrow while there's still some moisture. Alot of the oats was planted last week around here. One good thing about the dry weather its perfect for calving. I'am about 20 from being half done. Very unusal as I turn the bulls out to begin calving April 1.
 
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