Early winter tillage

SVcummins · Dec 18, 2017

Anybody else doing some early winter tillage the Week before Christmas

DeltaRed · Dec 18, 2017

I've been plowing. But I'm starting to see frost, especially in the shadows.They are forecasting weather later this week,so ground work may be about over.

SVcummins · Dec 19, 2017

I?d like to see about two feet of snow I really would I hate open winters

Bruce from Can. · Dec 19, 2017

Tillage ended for us around December 6th this year. We have had several morning when the temperature dipped down below Zero F . And we now have about 8-10 inches of snow. I really don?t think there is much frost in the ground with all of this snow. Good thaw , and tillage could be game on again. You never know.

RM-MN · Dec 19, 2017

I put in a request for 4' of snow and a few (very few, mind you) mornings with temperature of -40 to -45. We need those temperatures to kill off some of the bugs that are killing our trees and that much snow to refill the ponds and sloughs with spring melt.

James Howell · Dec 19, 2017

Had some wild hog damage down in the bottom last week.

Put the disk harrow on one of the Model 70 Diesels and worked over the rough spots.

Hog liked the new dirt work so well, it decided to come back and root some more.

Rain today so the ground will be too wet to work for a few days.

SVcummins · Dec 19, 2017

Yes sometimes winters aren?t long enough and cold enough to kill the bugs and other things

donjr · Dec 19, 2017

I pretty much finished with cover crop and corn around the 1st of November. Once fall gives way to winter, the ground stays wet and doesn't dry out enough to clean and I stay the hill off of it until spring dryout. Driving on it just makes what little plow layer we have thicker, and I do enough damage to my soil deer hunting and pushing field edges back over the winter. I've been no tilling for some 40 years and have very little plow pan, and the soil gets softer as the years go by. Plus, the covers can't work if you mess them up. I have little or no winter wind erosion, and the ground sucks in moisture all winter and dries quickly in the spring. I haven't had moldboard plows on in many years, and do very little with a disc or spike type harrow. Plus, I don't freeze on an open deck and now burn little diesel over the cold months other than to feed and clear snow. Gives me more time to control the deer population, too......

SVcummins · Dec 19, 2017

Everything is plowed here and ether power harrowed If it needs a fine seedbed or disked and harrowed If not . As far as an open air tractor never bothers me to run one only had one cab tractor growing up it was worse than no cab . I put on two coats and a scarf good gloves and my pacs and go to work . We?re going to try planting these two fields to grass next spring so if we put the finish on em on this fall we can save the moisture for next spring if there is any

Early winter tillage

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