Planting 30 on 36 stubble

Moline_guy

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Bought a 30" john deere 7200 planter last fall, have been running 36" rows for several years. I usually plant between last years rows with corn on corn. Should I give it a disking this spring or will I be able to plant the 30" rows into the 36" stubble? Even with the trash wipers, I would think the stalks in untilled ground are going to mess with plant depth if a row is getting planted on an old row, maybe not? Thanks for any information or experience with it.
 
No experience with planting large fields, but mathematically it should be okay. Old rows are 36, 72, 108, 144, 180 .... New rows are 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 .... If you start centered between the old rows at 180" you'll be centered in the old row again.

Larry
 
I have zero experience, so take this for what you pay for it.

Notill is a very very rare thing in my area, so again.....

On other forums, some suggest you will have some rows come up poor that way, as you say on top of the old row or terrible close.

Some suggest if the field allows, plant at a 10-15 degree angle to the old rows.

This allows the row cleaners to walk through the old rows so they clean out a lot better and plant better, and each row has a tiny problem so everything is equal, perhaps up the planting a very tiny amount, few 100.

Again, take for what its worth....

Paul
 
A lot of them around here are planting bean rows at about a 30 degree angle to the old corn rows even when planting 30 on 30.
 
We notill all of our beans and work all the ground for the corn. We use a 12-24 kinze 15/30in I know that I'm never straddling the row all the time while in planting beans and we have great luck with seed placement in the beans. I would say just pull in the field and start planting. But if you are that worried that you might not get the seed placement that you are after go ahead and work up the ground.
 
We generally plant at a angle of at least 24 rows. When no=tilling. All we do. But just farm 250 acres.
 

Thanks for the information, will see how the spring unfolds, maybe give it a light disking if conditions are favorable, or just plant on a angle a bit, beans wouldn't be a problem angle planting, didn't really want to plant the corn on an angle unless it is necessary. Thanks again.
 
We plant at a 10-12 degree angle to the old rows, be it beans or corn. That way the turn rows are the only places that the we are running tires and possibly row units the length of the old row. It leaves some short rows at each side, but on a square 1/4-mile long field, I think it"s about 36 rows that are short.
 

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