We have both dark mucky ground (which is full tilled) and sandy / gravel soil which we either no till (soybeans into corn) or min-till (corn on corn). We always plow under our hay fields when we switch them over to corn.
Andy, you are being very generous stating there are "hills" in Central Illinois. haha. I graduated from EIU and my sons graduated from U of I, so know about the flat land of Illinois. Have a great fall and winter. Keep the videos coming.
Spray Excavator a product from meristem on corn and bean residue, then run 2660VT and 2730 ripper on corn stalks. On bean ground depending on weather run a chisel plow and put anhydrous on. Located in WC IL
Andy, the only tillage we did this fall was where we tiled this summer and also where we tiled seven years ago. Both were to help level the ground where we plowed in tile. The rest of our land we either drilled cover crop or let it lay. Next spring we will lightly till what we worked this fall, the rest we will no-til. We will have one field of winter wheat to tile in next summer.
We do a mixture of every type of tillage basically on our farm: we'll normally strip till ahead of our cotton crop, we do tillage during the summer of fields we had wheat on over the winter, we don't plant everything with cotton or whatever we have said year, and we no till some wheat in over the winter on what was cotton crop after we harvest the cotton.
Ya gotta run either rippers or disk rippers to break that compaction up so ya get a nice stand on the corn cause the roots can get deep in the ground. Some farmers just run rippers down to 13 inches then run speed till a couple inches and then plant. I like using disc rippers cause its a 2 in 1 tool.
Disc rippers are popular for a reason. I think some guys just like working their ground as many times as possible… I prefer the least amount of trips with the most effect!
2730s seem to be more popular than our 2720. I don’t think a 2660 is as good as a cultivator for spring tillage, but it’s so close that you might as well save she’d space and keep costs down. I’d like lessen our need for spring tillage just based on future labor concerns.
We do vertical till on corn ground with salford i2200 and no till corn into soybean stubble. Next year will be the second year we are planting corn into cover crops after wheat.
Cover crops are growing in popularity very fast… I am not yet sold on putting something out before corn, but rye ahead of soybeans seems like a win-win.
@@aTrippyFarmer we planted crimson clover and tillage radish it was our only corn field this year that wasn’t starting to run out of nitrogen. We apply 30 gallons of 32% with y drops and stabilizer before tassel. We put our other nitrogen on at pre-emergence seems to work well.
Need to try out some 360 bullet points on your ripper. Will definitely fully fracture shank to shank and get all that compaction shattered. Worth checking out
We haven't the last few years. I've noticed the angled tillage on the disc ripper creates issues with the planter pulling straight through the field. We've got a new planter tractor so it might be a non-issue going forward. The angled tillage helps level the ground and chop the stalks up better.
If you're not doing deep ripping tillage in the Fall and light tillage at least 48 hours before you're planting in the Spring. You're not farming. You're gardening. That's my humble opinion.
Must be nice to do any tillage at all. We only did 3 small field and half of one bigger one last weak. After that, rain every day, sometimes with a little bit of snow thrown into the mix. Even if it's freezes at dawn, our soil is so full of water that we would just make it worst. Sucks, but what can you do, well, paperwork. A lot of damn paperwork so we can put "cheap" seeds into the soil.
@@aTrippyFarmer Yeah you could, I did impressive mudding with our 3 point subsoiler, though in the end we did not drill wheat there. But dose it worth it, while you destroy your soil in the process.
If youre running the ripper at 8.5-9 whats the point in owning a vt? Better weed control, better seed beds, and better nutrient availability with disc ripping. Plus you can buy a 512 9 shank for like 15 grand. You will never be money ahead owning a 100k+ vt tool and thats facts
They Vt going to beans i think. Larger width less fuel and its faster. And they can use it in the spring. Don't need a spring pass after a fall vt pass
I’ve never done a true side by side test, but it doesn’t seem like the disc ripper is giving us any better yields than the VT. It costs way more to run even if the tool itself is “cheaper.” We do need something to work HEL ground. It doesn’t have the be a super expensive VT though. If true economics were the only deciding factor in what we did, the farm would be cash rented for $500+ an acre with some sort of top end bonus and we’d sell all of the equipment. 😎
