Mother Nature just took another million tonnes off the books

[jensend]

might also be that 15 or 20 years of zero till has built up a hell of a nice layer of host material for diseases and pests right at the soil surface. conventional tillage oxidized the o.m. and gave the disease less opportunity to survive until the next host crop. nothing for free.

[furrowtickler]

I agree Jensend, its a combo af many things

[sumdumguy]

Think you may be right Jensend. Disease loves
rotting material.

[furrowtickler]

One of the main reasons we are looking at a vertical tillage machine.

[SASKFARMER3]

Fields we worked last fall had less
problems with moisture had nicer healthier
plants taller and bigger pods. Kelly high
speed disc harrow is probably going to be
on our farm this fall. Direct seeded since
1986. Time to change things up.

[SASKFARMER3]

The deep sub soiler that was used in the
area the fields look the same as where it
wasnt used.

[furrowtickler]

Would a kelly disc work well in pea stuble in fall?

[SASKFARMER3]

Where we used it on pea stubble on outside
rounds made seeding easy.

[sumdumguy]

Subsoilers turn up huge lumps in gumbo. The
year after there are problems with seed
placement. A few years later, back to normal.