I hope what they say is true

flying belgian · Nov 15, 2018

That the worst job of plowing in the fall is better then the best job in the spring. Because I made quite a mess out there with the disk ripper. This was for the neighbor that I custom organic farm for. This is S. Mn. and we had a cover crop of pea's, radish, barley, spring wheat, corn and beans planted. Really made a nice recipe for cover and was thick and tall and deep and will be an excellent soil enhancer bbbuuut it had to be plowed this fall and we have had terrible weather. First snow then bitter cold froze the ground then some more snow. Forecast calls for scattered rain tonight and 1 to 3 inches snow tomorrow and tomorrow night so I thought today was my last chance. Got up to 40 yesterday and today. If you drive by the field you are going to wonder what the hell that guy did out there. But it's done and I would say it is 75% okay.
So tomorrow I start getting my equip. in the shop and start healing my battle wounds. That and follow the Granddaughters around to their hockey games. That's the way I spend my winters. Life is good and getting better. Have a good evening.

SVcummins · Nov 15, 2018

A poor fall job always beats a spring job around here especially on dryland becuse the rough ground will ketch more moisture where a spring tillage job costs you moisture

casecollectorsc · Nov 15, 2018

Got about 16 acres to rip yet. Hauled the last of the corn this morning and cleaned and put the combine away.Chopped the 16 acres of stalks and was gonna hook up to the ripper and started to rain. That was at 3:30....now got 1" snow on the ground. Maybe next week...E SD.

Bruce from Can. · Nov 16, 2018

Wish I had even a poor job of ploughing done, but we have had so much rain, ploughing hasn?t been an option. Now we have 8-10? of white stuff every where.. Ground isn?t frozen under that snow, so still a chance yet. I have ploughed between Christmas and New Years before, maybe this will be one of those years.

johnlobb · Nov 16, 2018

This is another Belgian, and I remember around the early '80's playing 30 and over hockey, coaching an adult beginner travel hockey team and my son on a travel hockey team out of Trenton, MI, and my daughter playing travel hockey also out of Trenton. No cell phones then, but there was a calendar on the refrigerator that had to be looked at constantly.

Bob Bancroft · Nov 16, 2018

Certainly the fall tillage right here is beneficial. But this year the ground has not only been too wet for tillage since Oct 1, there are crops out all over!

Any time I tried a cover crop I then had a challenge dealing with it, and/or getting the ground dry/workable.

A neighbor who was here baling straw said it best, "good for the farm, bad for the farmer"!

Butch(OH) · Nov 16, 2018

My father was raised on a farm near Freeborn and I was born there. Grandpa always said if it dont get it plowed in the fall,,dont bother. When dad moved here to Ohio in 1958 spring plowing was quite an adjustment.

BobReeves · Nov 16, 2018

I really feel for you guys whose life depends on being able to get in the field. Just walked out to my sunflower plot to see if it was dry enough to plow, still a mud pit and don't expect it to dry out much before it's too cold. We went from a dry summer direct to a wet winter. Sunflowers didn't fair very well this year and if I can't get the weeds turned under this fall I'll have a bumper crop of weeds next spring.

SVcummins · Nov 16, 2018

I have plowed serval times In the middle of December after the ground has frozen usually only get one day and if you miss it that was your only chance until spring

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