No-tilling corn into red clover

Doing this gave me some good corn last year. Let’s see if I can repeat it.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Corn behind clover loke that should be amazing! I did this a few years ago, but was late after planting to get it burnt down. 90% of the stand came up and never looked back. You already have it sprayed, by the time the corn emerges the clover should be really dead?! Just double check that your maintaining consistent depth With your closing wheel preesure on high you might want atleast a single spiked wheel on each row. You will usually be able to run less closing pressure and get a better close to the trench.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Good ol' Lock-N-Loads on the planter granular chemical boxes back there... thought I was the only one that still had those on the planter LOL:) We used them to put Thimet granular in-furrow with the cotton seed as we planted. Course a couple years after the chemical dealer set me up with them, Gaucho seed treatment insecticide came out and we tried it and liked it, so we quit using the granular in the lock-n-load cans and just went for seed-applied Gaucho or Poncho directly applied in-bag at the seed plant, saves a lot of time and messing around setting the granular boxes and refilling even with the faster lock-n-load tech... plus no trailer load of spent lock-n-load cans to return to the dealer... Good technology but it just came out too late to be particularly practical... sure could have used it in the old days when guys were putting out Counter or some of that other really hot stuff on corn through the granular boxes; that stuff you had to be REAL careful with because if you breathed the dust it could seriously mess you up or even kill you... organophosphate stuff IIRC...

[@donvoll2580]

Good day from Ontario Retired I thought cover crops was keep weeds from growing n blow away ground We wpuld plow down sod fields { alfalfa & grasses} for green manure & compose soil This is interesting to see! Ths

[@lukestrawwalker]

Sent a vid to my BIL last year, in this area they'll plant their corn through a thin cover crop and spring grass and thistles (mostly wild ryegrass, some burr clover or white clover, and sow thistles/verbena or henbit) and then spray over the top with Roundup the next day to burn everything down. He thought they were nuts but it works for them, so can't argue with what works! Myself If I were going to do that I'd have a boom on the back of the planter broadcasting Roundup at the same time I was planting, or at least the corn herbicide... Why I was always leery of Roundup Ready cotton and set up our planter to spray the preemerge/band treatment directly behind the press wheels, because on our heavy black clay at Needville, pool table flat, if you got a rain overnight after planting it might be a couple weeks or more before you could get back into the field, and have crop already up and can't spray stuff like Cotoran or Caparol over the top, as it was preemerge only, and even Roundup Ready 1 cotton you couldn't spray after fourth true leaf, which meant if it went to raining off and on for a couple weeks or so after planting, you could easily see that window close before you could ever get back into the field and spray Roundup over the top broadcast... RR2 solved that problem but that came along after I quit growing cotton. Course on the sandy hilly soil here, I've plowed a few hours after a two-inch rain, so it's not that big a deal... technically speaking you could get a few inches of rain immediately after planting and STILL manage to get over it to do a burndown spray the next day, even if you were running through puddles on low ground, if you had to. On the Needville clay, you'd sink to the axles if you tried that.

[@danw6014]

I'd like to get rid of the Yetter fertilizer openers on my 7000 planter and switch to the ones like you have on your 7200. They work great in that residue.

[@839Unipicker]

These are JD single disk fertilizer openers. They show up on Facebook Marketplace occasionally. Somebody just had a pallet of them for sale but I can't remember which state it was in.

[@danw6014]

@@839Unipicker yes, I worked for a guy who had one like yours. They were simple and effective.

[@richardmead9225]

Love clover bales, they look black.