If you have a large farming operation it pays to drill and go no till cause you can not replace your top soil. If you are doing around 50 or 100 acres in may be cheaper to just plow. We do a 3 crop rotation between wheat soy beans and corn and a light disc every 3 years. Down in the bottoms and valleys on the river they will plow it cause they have 10 feet of top soil down there. I hate to see fields go to pasture or CRP. Hang in there Ben things have a way of turning around. Might turn you into a creek hunter yet.
you are right richard
around here the crops are put in with a one pass operation with a no till air seeder and a small teaspoon of nitrogen injected below the ground under the seed
the huge 550 HP john deeres here have A/C, TV, and are GPS controlled steering
my cousin has two set-ups like that and each rig costs over a half million
you gotta have real good land to do that and also thousands of acres to plant
on our little 30 some acre village site for this year twitko, russy, and me are gonna use the following
twiko____________JD 720 diesel with a JD 12 foot chisel plow w/18"sweeps (duckfeet)
me_____________JD 720 diesel w/a JD 14 foot chisel plow w/18"sweeps (duckfeet)
and russy will be using my JD model 70 gas with a real nice 10 foot IH chisel plow with low angle 18" sweeps (duckfeet)
thes just flip the top few inches of soil over and don't do any damage.....they just control the weeds which could be a fire hazard if not addressed
we don't farm any crops........all are just for weed control as we have an issue with the following: and it is a never ending job
'prostrate knot grass' which grows all winter long and will go to seed by the end of may if not flipped
next comes the 'red rooted pig weed', 'thistle', and 'tumbleweed' which can get easily 4-6 feet tall if not turned over
and last comes the field bindweed (creeping jenny) in the fall the creeping jenny is the ugliest and if left grow a few days too long it really can suck trying to deal with it too the point of having to use a disc which i hate
we cannot do any spraying since there are about six shallow water wells in the area that we are protecting
this year we are gonna set the stroke control (depth) on the chisel plows a slight bit deeper from just under 4 inches to about 4 & 1/2" which might expose a few new finds
sorry not to derail your thread my friend ben, only just sayin', i hope you can find some more new spots this summer
without twitko and russy the diesel i could not do it......they are great
stevie b
