Plowing anybody? In FEB? In NY?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2012

Here is South Central NY along the Susquehanna river. Been a warm winter. Turned over 40 acres of ground in the last 3 days. Anybody else in the fields? The wet fall didn't allow us any fall plowing. Field conditions are really good for plowing right now. Not pushing real hard but getting ahead a bit for spring. With 600 acres of corn ground to plow every bit ahead will help. Hoping if conditions hold we will get about 200 done.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 18, 2012

Completed what I wanted to get done here the second week of Jan. Since then I've been able to haul some dirt around from where I cleaned an open ditch, and I've been able to spread it around some.
I scraped some snow away from the mouth of the driveway twice, but it wasn't necessary.
This is my kind of winter!

Bret4207 · Feb 18, 2012

We aren't plowing up here on the St Lawrence River, but we're doing pretty much everything else. An open winter with a good frost in the ground is the best time to clean fence lines.

flying belgian · Feb 18, 2012

Here in so. central Mn. the tiling machines have been running all winter. Neighbor across the road just moved in the tiling machine on Weds. He dug up some connections in the middle of the field. I have not walked out there but I don't think he hit any frost.

El Toro · Feb 18, 2012

I plowed my garden in Feb 1990. We didn't get much snow or rain that Winter, but we did a lot good rain storms during that summer. My Silver Queen corn was the best crop I ever raised. Had big ears and very tall stalks. We froze the corn in seal-a-meal bags after cutting it off the cob. Hal

Don-Wi · Feb 18, 2012

I think there's too much frost in the ground, but I have already plowed in January a couple years when we got a good thaw. I think it was 2 years ago I plowed a hay field in early March, then it went back to crappy weather and it turned out like fall plowed ground.

Donovan from Wisconsin

NY 986 · Feb 18, 2012

Pretty risky on a lot of our ground if it does not freeze out. We have gone into January before but our program is pretty much minimum till nowadays.

casenut1 · Feb 18, 2012

no frost in the ground here in central ohio. have
seen some work being done .

Billy NY · Feb 18, 2012

You could here, and even more so on the rolling hills surrounding, but you would want to avoid wet spots in fields, or check them out first, those would be the only consideration, frost is out, moisture does not seem excess enough to cause problems. I plowed a portion of a field in early December, in an area that traps some water, and eventually had to stop. Well I could have skipped over a few furrows and kept going, its only a food plot, however, and strangely enough, I could go back down and start where I left off, the adjacent creek is low, I walked across it, that's real odd for this time of year. It seems to be a good time to get out there and gather wood right now. If this keeps up, going to be a dry spring.

Brad Gyde · Feb 18, 2012

We had about 1" of frost here in SE lower Michigan until Wednesday night..

We've been hauling bio-solids all winter (well, every opportunity we get).. It's too moist to do too much without a little frost, problem is, it freezes (seems like on a Saturday night as of lately).. and by Wednesday it's warm enough that we're back to slop.. Usually 15th of December we're froze out, so this has been a strange season for us no doubt.

I'm hoping that we start gettin warmer soon, and that they put our "frost laws" on, and remove them quickly so we can really get to swingin.. Would be nice to b back to running 5-6 days a week by this time next month.

Brad

Pete76NY · Feb 18, 2012

Geez Matt whay didn't ask for some help? Love to get some seat time about now! Pete

Rick Kr · Feb 18, 2012

Heard from a guy at work they put the frost restrictions on Lapeer county. Didn"t confirm it.
Rick

rustyplow · Feb 18, 2012

Just read in todays paper, frost laws come on mon. in tuscola co.

Tony in Mass. · Feb 18, 2012

I got a book on 'modern farming... 1876', from what is now UMass. And it reccomended 'ploughing as much in the chill of winter as possible, to uproot and kill the worms and beasts'. Now people buy worms by the crate. So just keep the the death rate to a minimum OK?

Brad Gyde · Feb 19, 2012

Just found a website that shows what counties are under frost laws..

A lot of counties will have them in effect as of Monday.. However, no counties in my corner of the state yet. Rumored a couple counties down here won't even be putting them on, seeing as we really have no frost to speak of.. Our dirt roads are virtually frost free here in Monroe County, and every time they get firm, a day or 2 later they seem to thaw back out, so I assume the asphalt is much of the same.

Brad

hintocw · Feb 19, 2012

What is a "frost law"?

shawnspeed3 · Feb 19, 2012

Frostlaws are usually weight/speed restrictions put on in the spring time when the ground is thawing,limiting the weight & speed of heavy commercial vehicles, on secondary & dirt roads. These laws do not apply on AA, and or interstate freeways/highways, with there better roadbeds.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 19, 2012

Just got done plowin my garden, central MD, Wednesday. Top end was a little greasy, but got'er done!

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

Help is a good thing. So is a little bonus seat time in FEB. Where are you located?

mkirsch · Feb 20, 2012

What are "frost laws?"

BTW, I was out pushing brush with the loader tractor a week or so ago, and the ground was really mellow. Seems like it would plow up nice.

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