Cover Crop Roller Benefits:
- Cover crop management without herbicides or tillage
- Reduced herbicide use in conventional no till farming systems
- Mulching effects and barrier attributes of cover crop are maximized
- Rolling and compressing improves the weed suppression of the cover crop
- Reduction of water evaporation from the soil
- Better incorporation of crop residue in organic farming
- Standard 8', 10.5', and 15' widths
- Can be built any size up to 40' wide
- Call for quotes on all sizes
- Mounted with a three point hitch with hydraulic lift
- This farm roller is ground driven
- Blades are arranged in chevron pattern to prevent bouncing
- Blades are welded and replacement blades can be bolted on as needed
- Blades on the drum are spaced 8" apart
- Cylinder is 16" diameter
- Water or other liquid can be added for added weight to improve performance of crop rolling
- Weight of the 10.5' Cover Crop Roller is 1600 lbs empty and 2400 lbs filled with water
- The Cover Crop Roller can be mounted on a front end loader
- The Crop Roller can be pulled with horses
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I & J Cover-Crop Roller
I & J Cover-Crop Roller: Press Release
No-till can reduce the number of field operations for corn from eight to two, just roll and plant. No-till cover crops supply nutrients, build organic matter and prevent soil erosion. The challenge has been in finding the right equipment to knock down the cover crop before planting.
The I & J front-mounted, Cover-Crop Roller meets that challenge by allowing farmers to knock down a weed-suppressing cover-crop mat and plant through it all in one operation, rolling and planting simultaneously, cutting two no-till passes to one.
The I & J Cover-Crop Roller can turn a lush stand of rye and hairy vetch into a thick, weed-suppressing mulch so well it makes observers wonder why herbicides were ever used in no-till farming. One farmer knocked down a cover crop of rye with the roller and planted directly into the residue. Although there were no chemicals involved, it looked so good and the kill was so complete an observer thought it must have been sprayed with herbicides.
The design of the I & J Cover-Crop Roller is based on what didn’t work well with stalk choppers. It uses a single cylinder with two bearings, instead of the chopper’s eight rolling drums and 16 bearings. Chevron-pattern, instead of parallel blades, avoid kicking up soil. A pipe 16 inches in diameter was chosen for the core and four-inch blades proved most effective in tests. The I & J Cover-Crop Roller has tested at 90% minimum crop knockdown and easily handles tough crops like hairy vetch and rye that cause problems for stalk choppers.
Available standard roller widths are 8-ft. (3-row), 10-1/2-ft. (4-row) and 15-1/2-ft. (6-row). Custom-built sizes are also available, up to 40-ft. The roller fits standard Category I or II three-point hitches. I & J Manufacturing also offers a three-point adapter for the fronts of tractors not already equipped with them.
