I have a hand spreader similar to yours and a pull behind spreader. I could certainly lay soybeans down on disked ground, try to lightly disk them in, then cultipack the ground. I would probably get a pretty good stand this way. Then I would need to spay on the roundup. That would require me to purchase an applicator boom sprayer and I would be running over the beans in the application process, not a big deal I guess.

For the corn, I might get a decent stand using a conventional 2 or 4 row planter, which I would need to purchase. I guess the boom sprayer would work on the corn, but I might also need a nitrogen applicator, another investment? I may be able to apply nitrogen to the soil and disk it in, but the results would be less desireable than liquid application at the right point in the growth cycle.

I sure wish there was a single piece of reasonably priced no-till equipment which would act as a planter, sprayer and applicator, even if it was only a two row planter and 4 (between the rows) applicator/sprayer. Maybe I'll invent one.

Of course, none of this addresses the harvest of crops. I need a portion of the field open for goose shooting and I probably shouldn't be bush hogging standing corn then shooting waterfowl over it. That was one of the reasons I would plant the sunflowers, shoot doves, then bush hog them, disk and plant winter wheat in that section.