First pass on the year

It wasn't over dry but it sure plowed nice.

Maybe my timing was wrong with the spraying, but that alfalfa is tough stuff to kill. Jim

Corn into sod,corn into bean stubble and beans into corn stalks.

Every time I tried it it was my worst yeilding field for the year. Notil does not work where I have been running cattle to grub on the stalks and grass. Ground is to hard.

Most who are notill around here are just trying to cut expenses, but they may be cutting income by more.

Only thing that seem to come close on yield was beans into corn stalks. I will do that again.

Until you do some good side by side tests you don't know what you are missing on yield on notill verses tillage. I have done the tests and this is the way for me.

Now if you have some old clay hills I could see where there might be a benifit to notill.

But it's not for me.

Gary

I felt that weeds just ate away at the fertilizer stored in my soil so this year, right after the last hay cutting, I plowed in the stubble. I have run the cultivator over the fields since in an attempt to keep the weed population down. and since fall have been over the fields at least 3 times prior to the one below.

The cultivator I am referring to is a spring shank mechanism with a 10" chisel tip (multiple shanks across the width of the plow) and 3 rows of spring fingers following.

As most folks, we have had hard rains with the fronts coming through and just this week I thought I would do it again as I am getting ready for planting, and the ground was so hard (after the field dried out adequately) the cultivator just bounced across the top of it; I had to get the plow out.

I know good and well that the drill wouldn't penetrate that and then there is the never ending nuisance of weeds coming up faster than the crop I plant.

I don't use chemicals to kill the weeds for several reasons so plowing is my only recourse. But even if I did, the soil still doesn't cooperate.

Mark

It was due to be plowed. Not a very good stand of grassor alfalfa anymore.

But I am not seeding any down to replace it.

Cutting back on cows so that yours will be more valuable.

Gary

About 40 acres to go yet.

Larry

To get that here you'd have to harrow it half dozen times.

Congratulations.

Mark

I use to pull it with a 966. And pulled it for years with a 1086.

The answer is yes.

Gary

I use to get a sore back with the in furrow 5 bottom from setting at an angle all day.

Gary

I fall chiesel and one pass with a field cultivator in the spring on corn stalks to beans.

And one pass field cultivate in the spring on bean stubble and plant to corn.

Gary