No tilling into alfalfa field

[K2]

Im picking up 40 acres that has been in hay for 6 years.  It was originally alfalfa and orchard grass and now most of the alfalfa has died out.

 

My current plan as follows

 

-  spray it down this fall with a dicamba cocktail

-  no till in the spring earliest possible

-  Spray Harness/RdUP PM preemergence

-   take tissue samples on N

 

 

Am I dreaming ill be able to no-till into this stuff?  Ideas?  I dont own the equipment to plow this down.

 

 

JK

[Nick]

If you have a way to get the fertilizer into the ground it should no-till just fine.

[Morgan McNeal]

What are you drilling into the alfalfa, last year we custom no-tilled feed into the alfalfa, it drilled fine but the owner didnt get the alfalfa burned down well enough and it came back.

[K2]

Im going to no till corn in the spring. Plan is to burn it off this fall. I plant with a no till planter with 13 wave openers and single disk fert openers. Im a little worried about penatrating the root mass and how that effect seed to soil contact.

[josh]

I wouldnt do it go in kill it off plant beans then when you come back next year and no till your corn id never no till corn into hay

[Kevin Bucher]

we have hade some success with no-tilling in alfalfa the biggest thing we hade issue with was getting a good kill on the alfalfa, but if most of the alfalfa has died off i should work well.

[Andrew Akin]

we have done a lot of this the best thing we done is take the first cutting off let the alfalfa get a little bit of growth and then spray it this has always worked for us. Also on your planter if you put spade closing wheels on it one on each row with a rubber we did this 2 years ago and our emergance and stand is the best we've ever had

[Glen Groth]

As long as its fall killed, you will be fine. Its pretty common here in dairy country. You won't need anymore N than if you were going into bean ground. Getting a good kill on the hay is important. I have no-tilled a lot into grass hay, even some i sprayed in the spring.