PFR STP Disc Openers | Beck's PFR Report
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Clayton Stufflebeam, PFR Location Lead, discusses one of many Practical Farm Research studies this year. In this study, we are testing STP Disc Openers versus the standard opener. Check it out to see what we have discovered so far!
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Do you have the results of the yield comparisons anywhere? That would be the greatest piece of information.
Hi Andrew!
For the soybean disc opener yield results click here:
www.beckshybrids.com/pfresearch/Detail/ArtMID/1316/ArticleID/2650/2019-Central-Illinois-Soybean-Disc-Opener-Study
For the corn disc opener yield results click here:
www.beckshybrids.com/pfresearch/Detail/ArtMID/1316/ArticleID/2640/2019-Central-Illinois-Corn-Disc-Opener-Study
Thanks!
In our testing, we found that these require 35% more downforce, on average, than standard 3.5mm JD blades. For long-term no-till in many regions, this is more downforce than even hydraulic can supply. Our testing was with AgLeader hydraulic downforce on a JD 1770 planter -- the rows with STP were maxing out at the limit set at 425# -- I'm not sure how much more we could get out of it before the row units would start breaking. And it wasn't even all that hard and dry when we were planting!
Note for Clayton: the STPs are 4mm blades, which flex a lot less than 3.5mm. We had previously determined that 4mm smooth blades were a disadvantage in NT because they made the furrow wider than necessary.
Your long term no-till shouldn't be that hard. It should be more mellow, unless your continually getting on it when its too wet and/or fall spraying herbicides. Try them in long term cover cropped fields.
Your findings are interesting, but I was thinking they were designed more for planting into cover crops. I promise you, with DeltaForce, they will cut through anything with absolutely no hair-pinning. I used them this year and planted beans into headed out cereal rye, planted corn into Annual Ryegrass, Crimson Clover, Austrian WInter Pea, and Hairy Vetch. No Hair-pinning even on the end rows.
Hi Mark! We are testing DeltaForce at 4 locations in soybeans and 5 locations in corn this year, but not in cover crops. We will put that on the whiteboard to consider for a 2020 study! Thanks for your feedback.