I look forward to hearing more on this issue and using strip till to fend against it; You are the one who opened my eyes up to nutrient stratification last year. We've been no-tilling corn for about 8 years on soybean stubble and like you said, just broadcast a lot of N (ESN) & K out overtop of the ground and hoping the best from Mother Nature. We also strip-till with a knife unit, putting stablized 28% in the ground (8" deep), but only on previous year's winter wheat...then clover cover crop ground (all burnt down fall prior to planting). Soybeans we broadcast NPK and lightly disk or VT in then air-seed with JD 1990ccs. 1/2 of our acres is only a corn soybean rotation that strictly gets no-tilled corn and light till pre-planting soybeans....so this is the ground I'm most concerned with nutrient stratification. Thanks for your research and sharing.
I look forward to hearing more on this issue and using strip till to fend against it; You are the one who opened my eyes up to nutrient stratification last year. We've been no-tilling corn for about 8 years on soybean stubble and like you said, just broadcast a lot of N (ESN) & K out overtop of the ground and hoping the best from Mother Nature. We also strip-till with a knife unit, putting stablized 28% in the ground (8" deep), but only on previous year's winter wheat...then clover cover crop ground (all burnt down fall prior to planting). Soybeans we broadcast NPK and lightly disk or VT in then air-seed with JD 1990ccs. 1/2 of our acres is only a corn soybean rotation that strictly gets no-tilled corn and light till pre-planting soybeans....so this is the ground I'm most concerned with nutrient stratification. Thanks for your research and sharing.
Marion looks forward to seeing everyone at the conference!
I like the way how you don’t drink the cool aid with notill. Keep marching to your own drum my friend!
Are you doing any cover crops