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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4270579" data-attributes="member: 5412">Drills just cut a rut, drop the seed and have a trailing wheel to cover it up. Very little disturbance. Johnson grass is a rhizome just like bermuda grass. If there is an existing crop of johnson grass and one tries to disk it, cutting the root will result in two new plants. We bought a place on the Salt Fork River that floods occasionally. It was totally covered in johnson grass that was 8 feet high, so thick one couldn't walk through it. Waited until it died in the fall, and burned it. Following spring took a Grand Hami with peanut sweeps through there to bring the roots to the surface and let the sun kill them. Looked like snow on the field with all the roots on top. A month later, went in there and did it again to bring more to the top and continued this operation for two summers. Spraying was a waste of time as the seeds fall, lay on the ground and are not affected by the spray. In the fall of the second summer, started planting wheat with zero johnson grass. Lots of work. Flooded again about 5 years later, and here we go again. Gave up and use it for hunting  now.</blockquote>