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planting in wet ground

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Any advice on planting in wet ground.I had 40 arces all ready to plant last week here in Wi.then a week of rain.Would you work the ground up again or just plant?thanks
 
Depends on type of planter or drill. Might be tough with a runner type planter or one of the older drills others have been mentioning they intend to use. If not pounded by the rain leaving a hardened crust, I would "give it a go" if using a more modern planter and drill.
 
Depends on soil type as well- might get away with it on sandy, light ground, not so likely on clay.
 
I would try a little once it dries and see how the planter sets the seed. The 7000 we have works pretty well on hard ground.
 
A lot depends on the soil you have the crop your planting and the equipment your planting what with. Me I would probably try to find a no till drill but again that goes back to what you planting
 
Run over it with some light tillage and it'll be dry enough to plant a few days sooner than if you wait for it to dry out on its own.
 
That's for sure. Try to plant in that wet ground though,without fluffing it up and drying it out first and you'll have all of that compaction right in the seed furrow.
 
Depends on lots of things- crop? type of planter/drill? soil type? weed control?
With conventional tillage, it's always nice to fit just before planting, otherwise the weeds will have a big jump on your crop.
 
If your planter will put it in the ground and cover, don't till.Planted 450 acres the first week of May that was worked in mid-April, with a 2600 Kinze, almost all corn after corn, nice even stand.
 
Pulled a 7000 for years with notill mods helping my cousin farm - a great planter. Sucks into the ground like a plow. I have killed an ih 886 more than once by dropping back in on the end without enough rpm.
 
Roundup is cheaper than a disk. We love to plant into a (stale seed bed) You are going to have to spray it anyway, We would plant it then spray with Generic Roundup and a residual herbicide Good luck Vic
 
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