John
Crooymans - Bow Island, AB (5026)
"Our bean crop yielded 160lbs per acre more because
of crop residue management using the Schulte 5026
rotary cutter. In the Spring, where we had done the
mowing, the ground warmed up faster, the beans came
out of the ground faster and they grew better. Where
it hadn't been mowed we had a lower yield and higher
disease. The fields that hadn't been mowed are the
ones we planted first and the beans which we planted
last (where we mowed), within a couple of weeks, they
were at the same stage as the earlier planted fields.
When
we cultivated In the fall we could do a good job of
weed control and get right up to the beans on the
fields we mowed, as trash and residue was cleared.
We didn't have a whole lot of mould on the beans,
but where we did find it, it was in the fields that
weren't mowed. We also found we could till and seed
quicker on fields we mowed." |
