what does every one do with the stalks after ear picking and or what they use for tillage after and what brand of equipment they use to till the ground
NRCS says fall tillage is forbidden here. We don't get a solid freeze all winter so the hillsides will wash if left open. Some of my cornstalks I shred and round bale for steers. Then cover crop (usually rye-hairy vetch mix) gets no-tilled in that. Some gets shredded and left spread out for cover, and chisel plowed in the spring. Some I do nothing to and no-till soybeans into it next spring. The second year I grew Bt corn (I no longer do), I shredded all the stubble in the fall to let it rot down better. My experience the spring after the first year of Bt corn, that stuff was so tuff even after laying out all winter, I couldn't cut through it with the no-till coulters and it plugged a high-clearance moldboard plow! Even the heavy disk just kind of mashed them instead of cutting them.
