corn stalks

Anonymous-0

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Just wondering if any of you have a problem with brittle corn stalks now days. I run a floater for fall fertilizer and have to buy tires at $4500-5000 a piece each year. They gouge out right after the lug and down to the cords. I blame roundup but I may be wrong. How do the combines take it?
 
It"s best to move the combine wheels so they run between the rows, whether BT corn or not. It"s not a roundup issue. I made straddle duals for my M2, so not even duals hit the rows. On soybeans, run the combine at an angle so stubble damage is spread across the face of the tire. With your floater, you don"t have that option.
 
Would it help to make stalk pushers to mount in front of your tires? Kind of like the stalk stompers for combines but bigger?
 
Yes,'geneticly modifyed' hybrids do seem to be more brittle/tougher.Some stockman say their cattle refuse to eat the stalks if given a choise.One local producer compares RR/bt corn to bamboo.I dont raise stock,so this is 'hearsay'.
 
Not hearsay we raised triple stack corn last three years we farmed. Stupid stalks did not break down with the weather and would plug the combine the next year when field was in beans. It is just like bamboo IMO.
 

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