Done Planting, Gotta Do Something Different Next Year

super99 · May 3, 2015

I took off from work at Noon Thursday to get started planting corn and then all day Friday. Finished corn and switched planter from trash wheels to no till coulters and started on beans. Finished beans Saturday evening. I planted corn into last years bean stubble no till. I usually side dress N, but decided to let CPS put it on before planting this year. Not sure if I like having N put on before I plant. It left the soil ridged from the applicator knives, and I planted some of the hills on contour instead of following the applicator tracks and MAN, it was ROUGH!! The Dawn trash wheels were set to not disturb the soil much in the bean stubble, but every time the trash wheel ran down a knife track, it made a trench from the ridge the knife left. The entire farm is HEL. I drilled cover crop rye last fall and sprayed a burndown to kill it. I don't think I have many options to try in this situation. I might have to try having them spray on liquid next year. Chris

Bigbudsoda · May 3, 2015

What do you have in your tanks, starter or herb?

super99 · May 3, 2015

Starter, I dribble on 10 gal/acre n & P.

JD Seller · May 3, 2015

Chris you did not say how many acres of corn you have. If it is not too many I would side dress the nitrogen later in the crop year. Since you have saddle tanks all you need is a tool bar with the rolling cutters and injection nozzles. Do not worry about the small amount of corn you run over it does not effect the yield. This will keep your soil in place and place the nitrogen where and when you need it. Spraying liquid on top is a hit or miss game. You can lose a lot to evaporation that way if it does not rain.

LAA · May 3, 2015

I plant corn in cover crop stubble every year and use a liquid starter, then side dress the bulk of N when the corn is 6-10 inches using the local co-ops liquid injector rig, they have 4-8 row yetter units and there is a small charge factored in to the price of the fertilizer. Too much fall, winter and spring rain to broadcast or pre-inject N in my area.

super99 · May 4, 2015

I have about 30 acres of corn each year. I have a 5 knife NH3 applicator that I usually side dress with. It works good, but you really run the end rows down and then the weeds come along after the corn is too big to drive thru to spray again. I usually just plant east to west, but I have a couple of steep, sandy hills that wash pretty good with a big rain, so this year I planted the hills a different direction to try to control the runoff better. With point rows all over the field, I thought I would really run the corn down turning, so I would try something else. Pre plant is not the answer.

Leroy · May 4, 2015

That is the way I look at it to as being too wet for appling like that but that is about what everybody around here does anyway. With all types of fertilizer and now getting in trouble with fertilizer in the lakes and rivers.

uncle scat · May 4, 2015

I run same planter and put on preplant ammonia in spring . If dry weather, I run over it with a 4 section harrow crossways, especially if I overhauled cattle manure. I'm using the factory counters for corn and beans. what kind of row cleaners are you using and are they frame mounted or row unit mounted? I put on dry fertilizer with planter. Don't harrow if damp weather as you will roll up bean stubble and make a mess. Have done this for years ,never had a problem. Good luck and have fun .

super99 · May 4, 2015

For corn going into bean stubble, I use Dawn row cleaners, unit mounted. For beans into cornstalks, I put the no till wavy coulters back on and take the trash wheels off. When I started no tilling, I just had the wavy coulters. I had problems getting a stand in the trash swath from the combine chopper, so I got the trash wheels and it works better. Wish I could have trash wheels and no till coulter both but these aren't set up that way.

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