The old saying goes, "The worst tillage pass in the fall is superior to the best tillage pass in the spring". If you're going to do something a bit extreme, do it now. I had a similar situation this fall. I disked twice at opposing 30 degree keeters (240 and 300 degrees on the autosteer), deep ripped the ground east and west with a inline ripper with coulters, then an east /west pass with a finisher (you heard me right - finisher) with moderate pressure on the disk. Sounds crazy, looks great. A week later we put down NH3. The P and K were already applied prior to starting all this tillage. This smoothed out a very rough field and it will be just one pass with the finisher and plant corn in the spring. I'm sure the no-tillers will have a cow, but with the flood years we've had here in ECIA a lot of the fields got pretty screwed up. I'm seeing some pretty committed min/no-til guys doing some pretty aggressive tillage.
