Strip till cover crops into wheat stubble

[@fhaizpctn5891]

Strip till cover crops inti wheat stubble

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I liked it, something about the wheat makes it pretty!

[@darrelpatzner9926]

Should be cool to see the results

[@shaneholst6940]

Interesting?🤔

[@craighinshaw2437]

Got to do an update on this

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Ok.

[@stevenstart8728]

Very interesting. I’d like to see how much growth you get before it gets cold. Will you terminate it prior to a spring crop or graze it next summer. That may sound ignorant but your seasons are so arse about compared to what I know. We also sow balansa clover in the autumn and turn sheep onto it in the spring as part of our rotation. Pronounced “ ba lan sa”. It is capable of a huge biomass with a 3 kg/ha sowing rate in the right season.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

I don't expect much growth if any of this fall but hoping that we get a little bit of a green up in the spring. That's why it's an experiment. LOL If I get a good green strip in the spring then I would give it as long as I could before termination. Maybe leave one strip go but for the most part I would terminate early June

[@leeforeman3656]

Good afternoon Jon. That should work well. There is a uk company that has bought out a direct drill to do that. The intention over here is to use it for crop production in a one pass establishment. Obviously going to save on fuel emissions. 👍

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Need to work on that ESG score..... Seems you guys get a lot of cool stuff first

[@craighinshaw2437]

If this work would 3 wavey coulters work better if just putting covercrops only?

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Possibly? Lot less hp and faster?!

[@justingermanovich]

Wouldn’t it make more sense if it’s more fertile in the “strip” to just seed the whole field? And yes I’m commenting 2 seconds into this video so if you answer later just ignore me 😂

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Ha, it's a test, can we use very little cover crop to build a little soil at a time?

[@e.a.bfarms]

Always thought strip till was the way to go. Just stupid how expensive it is to get started with it.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Can be, but if you take the cost of a primary tool and finisher, and then the savings of reduced passes and potentially less fertilizer...

[@e.a.bfarms]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 I hear ya. Biggest hold up for me is the technology. Once I can get my hands on gps and auto steer the equipment will be justifiable.

[@ryecarlson7867]

Hadn't considered planting legumes the fall before! How big those suckers going to get you think? Maybe use an earlier corn hybrid and plant later???

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Maybe try some strips where we don't terminate? !!

[@ryecarlson7867]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Yeeeehaaawww!

[@craighinshaw2437]

Fenning equiptment is putting air seeder on the header so when u pick beans , you put down cover crops down

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

That's a good idea! Especially in warmer areas where they might get a lot of fall bang for the buck out of that seed

[@craighinshaw2437]

Wheat or small grains harvest can work

[@tommoyer3302]

I put a cover crop of radish, annual ryegrass,crimson clover n hairy vetch in after wheat this year n vertical tilled it into dry soil , didn't come up for almost 3 weeks cause it was dry n it made the county's biggest Canadian goose feeder , probably 1000 of them eating the seed so next year I can leave out the clover n consider the goose poop as my nitrogen credit lol haha . Good video 👍 can't wait to see how it turns out

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Isn't that crazy, man seeded down a 40 acre to a sorghum Sedan mix, not one plant came up but birds grazed that field hard.

[@tommoyer3302]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 actually after we got rain it came up n really looks good now so the geese didn't get all the seed haha but the geese are lucky I prefer chicken lol haha

[@farming4g]

Had the grasshoppers eat. Put down millet, radish, turnip, along with durum for filler... durum came up first and got eaten off, than the millet came through but since then it froze hard. So dry though it took 2 weeks to see anything germinate, but I don't think the radishes or turnips germinated... or if they did didn't do much with lack of moist ground. Maybe if it didn't germinate, maybe the rest will take off in the spring during planting.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Yeah that's the sucky part. Sorry I didn't work for you. We seated down 40 acres of a sorghum sedan mix for a silage crop. Drilled it into bone dry soil then a couple days later we got a couple tents of rain and that was it and there's not one plant to show evidence that we did anything

[@farming4g]

@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 at least the millet did something... might be something I put in every year when doing covers. It is a learning process.

[@mn-1381]

I think the seeding method should work quite well! Question on the strip till, should there be a larger berm over the center of the strip? It looks like it might settle over the winter and create a valley?

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

Didn't last year. I wouldn't mind getting a conditioning system for this in the future.