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I look for 1” of tip back. If it’s thinner then you could be leaving money on the table.

Matt, please excuse me if this offends you but I am trying to give you some ideas to think about, I really think you are doing an amazing job at farming land I would not consider farming. after seeing the pancake roots in the corn, look at your cover crop mix and add more plants that produce a roots to attack that pan. a ripper is short term while the right plants may be slower but a long term fix that does not need to be done each year. ripping has been shown to more compaction layers down in the soil to the depth of ripping. since your corn goes to wheat, seed radishes in the wheat when you plant the wheat. mix the seed in the seedbox. farmers up here with high clay soils have started doing that and I have heard good improvements in wheat yields as well as soil health. the rotted roots of the radishes gives a place for water to enter the soil in the spring instead of ponding or keeping the wheat roots soaked. wheat does not like wet roots for max yield. store the water down below for the double crop beans. hopefully the bean roots will find the radish channels and get deeper in the soil. since bean roots are more woody that will hopefully keep the channels open for the cotton and corn to follow. also look at the rooting patterns of the corn you planted. most of the race horse corn have a small rooting system putting more of the energy in above ground growth which is fine when you have great soils like in Iowa. there are lines of corn that produce massive roots that go down deep. I used the later, when I used to moldboard plow corn stalks under because of the massive residue and bury weed seed the entire plow layer was a web of corn roots. those roots went down like that over 30 inches. I was told I had to have a plow pan yet too boot. on your steep soils I would not use a plow and a disk is too shallow to attack the compaction. I would make sure radishes are on every acre each fall. if you have a market for canola, consider trying spring canola as a double crop after wheat, it has a strong tap root that has fibrous roots off at each node that really loosen the soil. I eliminated lots of mud holes and wet spots that were compacted by standing water using them. 1/8 diameter roots were down 30 inches and still growing down. the following corn in those spots was 10-15 bushels higher than the rest of the field. looking forward to seeing and hearing about what you are going to do to address this soil issue and how successful you are. in the words of Tony Fast farm hard, pray harder.

I farm here in south Carolina in marion county i promise you a subsoiler pays i run a subsoiler planter soil people that are bigger farms subsoil the. Turbo till and plant or either just plant but when dry weather comes its night amd day difference

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Well define info , good luck during harvest , stay safe everyone , enjoy & have fun ! Dylan a nice person , great help !

Pretty detailed Matt. Good to see Dylan.

Looks good to me fellas. God bless y'all

Very good video

Very informative. No agronomists or extension worker shows this kind of info here. Lots to absorb. Thanks.

I make no bones about our fields being compacted. Our NRCS frowns on any tillage. So I finally got the man and drove him around and showed several different scenarios. So this Fall we are doing some cover crops, some ripping and some tillage.

Need to put an edge on that trenching shovel, it'll go in the ground easier. Doesn't have to be razor sharp, by any means, but the edge from the factory is blunt. Simple file is all that's needed. Good video!

Matt I would love to see u do a trial with a in line ripper with roller behind before u plant cover crops. They are used a ton out here in Oregon and you can hardly tell they did anything when done but break compaction

Good video, very informative.

Give up good work

Matt, in Northern Illinois they we use a lot of carrots and turnips in cover crops to help break up the hard pan. Have you tried a mix with those in it?

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great videowould love to see a deep ripper go through about 50/100 swath then watch all year from drone to

Have you started harvesting your corn yet ?

Matt you’re in denial you have compaction. If you had dry conditions you couldn’t get the shovel in the ground. Be thankful the rains helped keep the ground somewhat soft.

I agree with all of it . But in any business it doesn't matter if you make 150 bushel to the acre or 300 its all about how much you put in your pocket when the bins are empty and the checks are cashed.. A couple of years back I was having a irrigation pump rebuild and the owner was showing me his 300 plus bushel corn all on big pivots lots of liquid fertilizer . Well turns out we have the same fuel guy I really don't know how many acres he had but I do know he was using 30,000 gallons of diesel a week . And was running propane motors also .

Get the D11 out and bust the subsoil up Mat it done wonders for me cheers 24:58

my suggestion is ....pull a straight ripper over 100 ac and see what you get

It was used years ago was an anhydrous applicator only. It was nirmally set for 8 inches down and fall between the rows. Just don't watch it as it will bring up slabs when compaction was present.

Vertical tillage boys deep and shallow 😎