I've always wondered what kind of compaction issues we have in these soils, either its not much of a problem or we have a bunch of farmers behind the times LOL ! Well, I can't say for sure what is still being used for tillage across the board, but there still seems to be a fair amount of moldboard/disc'ng going on, however its the same game input/yield, so I would think farmers would be aware as to what is going to get the best results, I'll have to ask as I know a couple of the larger ones around, its always had my curiosity, you see it mentioned here all the time that these things have gone to the wayside.
Our soils are glacial till, some clay, loam also a bit of gravel, stones, rocks, well drained to an extent, but you get wet spots of trapped water, that will get you stuck quickly. There are lots of rolling hills so that helps too. This field was still wet, but workable, I am not sure what the arrangement on those duals was, new tires, had to go with duals to pull that 637 around here, it performs well, and I've seen some excellent stands of corn on fields worked with it. I often wondered if subsoiling is ever done here and what the effects are, all those years of this kind of tillage, I have seen small areas in fields that do seem to compact and there is no doubt as to what it does to the yields. These shots were 2 years ago, I had been helping this guy on/off as needed, first time I ran anything this size, lot of grease fittings, LOL ! I remember one afternoon, doing a bunch of adjusting and him testing it out in an adjacent field, seems after quite a bit of fiddling around we finally got it adjusted right, then it was up to the guy in the cab !
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