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Post by tydeere on Apr 16, 2010 22:19:40 GMT -6
i thinks its just lightly cutivating it.
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Post by jmfarms on Apr 16, 2010 22:25:13 GMT -6
thats what i was thinking
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Post by tydeere on Apr 16, 2010 22:31:31 GMT -6
dad thinks its a waste of diesel just to scratch the top and not turn any ground over.
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Post by jmfarms on Apr 16, 2010 22:35:14 GMT -6
well if u no till it would make the weeds lay down though but im with him its a waste
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Post by tydeere on Apr 16, 2010 22:39:16 GMT -6
we like to do no-till on feilds that have alot of hills and slopes.
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Post by jmfarms on Apr 16, 2010 22:54:09 GMT -6
we have done alot of no till the last two years since it has been so wet but we have worked half our ground already this year
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Post by tydeere on Apr 16, 2010 22:56:46 GMT -6
u guys no-till all of yur diffrent crops?
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Post by johndeerejunkie on Apr 17, 2010 13:09:02 GMT -6
thanks for the info guys. Yeah, does sound like a waste of diesel to me, lol.
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Post by oliver66 on Apr 17, 2010 17:41:40 GMT -6
basically its using anything thats not considered a deep tillage implement. Like a disk.
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Post by jmfarms on Apr 18, 2010 19:28:06 GMT -6
tydeere what u mean bytill diffrent crops?
oliver 66 ya basically
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Post by oliver66 on Apr 19, 2010 14:06:30 GMT -6
I could see no tilling mabey every other year or something but, if you do it year after year eventually that ground would have to turn into one giant hardpan then you would have no choice but to go in and deep rip or subsoil it to bust the hardpan up. Thats why I would like to moldboard plow about every 2-3 years depending on the type of ground, and chisel plow, or use a field cultivator in between. As for working hillsides I would have to go with contour plowing, but that is an art in itself. You have to be D@mn good at plowing to do that kind of stuff. In conventional tillage you may have to run over the field a few more times but it saves money in the long run because tilled ground drains better, you get better root systems faster, and the ground doesnt progressively get harder.
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Post by jmfarms on Apr 19, 2010 21:47:44 GMT -6
i hate plowing period. it takes forever, its one way across the end rows, then rough if u have to work it contour. we usually run a case v ripper in our gumbo ground and on clay or whatever else a disk which will usually work it good. then a tilloll or field cultivator and roller and then plant it and usually try to work our corn ground in the fall so we can have an ealry start for the next year
oliver 66 tilled grounf also washes out a whole lot better to
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Post by tydeere on Apr 19, 2010 23:14:51 GMT -6
we always run a v ripper or an ox every 3-4 years on our wheat feilds after we harvest. cause our ground is a clay and sand mix and it packs solid, makes it tought to get a good route system goin.
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Post by johndeerejunkie on Apr 20, 2010 5:17:21 GMT -6
ok, another silly question, Iknow what a V-Ripper is, but what is an ox? Other than a large bovine, in case anyone wants to be cute, lol.
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Post by tydeere on Apr 22, 2010 21:35:31 GMT -6
its realy called a sub soiler i guess. insted of having yur ripper shanks in a V pattern. there in a row.. but we call it a OX to tell them apart. .
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