Out here in the arid west moisture conservation is the game. All tillage dries out the ground, including rod weeders. Discs and moldboard plows are the worst, rod weeder probably the best. With no till planters and herbacide almost no one summer fallows any more. The only time the chisel plows and field cultivators work around here is when the fields are to wet to plant, and that is not very often. I know I am going to take grief for this but spraying is cheaper, faster, better for the soil structure, better for erosion, air quality, water quality and things I am sure I forgot. Standing stubble saves moisture by protecting the ground from forces of the wind and the sun. It also captures water from snow melt. And if that is not enough some of these fields can be grazed after harvest. I don't miss mechanical tillage. Now days the only thing the big tractors pull is the planters. Not having summer fallow duty they are only getting a couple hundred hours a year and at that rate they last almost forever. What is a false seed bed ?
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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