Hi Trevor, I don't know what CRP ground is , but guessing it is some kind of "land set a side" deal the tree huggers promoted. Ploughing in the winter depends on many variables. Like was there snow before cold temps came? Snow will keep the ground under the snow from freezing down very far. Was the field driven on when wet/and before frost. Compacted wet ground seems to freeze hard like cement. When I plough out a old hay stand ,I like to rip the field ,first one way, and then back the other with my old Graham chisel plough. It is really not much more than a heavy cultivator. This cuts the old sod, and when you pull the plough through ,you don't have any trouble with big sod chunks flipping back over, and the field will take very little work to get a nice top for planting. So you could try to chisel a little to get an idea of the depth of the frost. The corn ground I worked over in the pictures yesterday had 1"-2" of frozen dirt. Last Sunday, no frost, and just a greasy, muddy mess. I had to wait for some cold to freeze dry the mud so I could travel on top, and not just slip and spin mud all over. Corn stalks run through the plough better when dry or frozen too. But the head lands had much more frozen dirt, and the plough wanted to ride up out of the ground where the wagons had packed the ends of the rows. You shouldn't have these kind of problems with a hay field, if you can get the plough to go in the ground, you should be good to go. All you can do is try. Bruce
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