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Finally got the chance to work some dirt

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Location
Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Not real dry , but I have to get some dirt worked and
grain planted , or there won?t be any straw to bed
the cows with next winter. Haying season is fast
approaching, and we are more than half way
through May. Got to make the best of it. I realize this
plou
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isn?t up to Loren?s standards, but it will have to do
 
The top quarter inch that may have dried from Saturday has been saturated with rain this afternoon. Rain forecast for over night. Prevent plant on the crop insurance is looking more likely with every passing day.
 
We got 3" of rain in the last two days so far. Got done with mine, but much not done still. Glad your able to do some. Plowing looks good to me. Much better than mine, and mine worked out ok.
 
Rain here again today.....not that it was near ready.....we had some lighter ground that might have worked by Thursday but not now.
I have never been a fan of spring plowing and I realize not all systems work everywhere. In this neck of the woods No til beans are the norm, light tillage for corn. I seed down at home with conventional spring only tillage, have no tilled beans for 20+ years. On this clay it works. No oats this year due to the lateness, Bruce I might need some of that straw
 
I got 33 acres of corn planted Friday. I was gonna quit after supper and not move in to that little 8 acre piece,but I'm glad I did,it rained just enough overnight that I wouldn't have been able to plant yesterday. I was just at a graduation open house. My nephew drives a sprayer for the elevator. He said he was spraying about 10 miles east of here this afternoon when the sky opened up and they got an inch and a half in 25 minutes.
 
Sure is a nice looking stretch of land there. A fair bit of corn went in here Saturday and Sunday morning,but only on the lighter soil. Finished my corn but the no till ground was sticky in a few spots.Plowed ground worked up real nice this year. 2 days of rain in the forecast. Some guys will sow grain plant corn and cut hay all in the same week.
Ben
 
That looks like real nice plowing to me, and straight to. I cannot tell how deep you are going but you must have a pretty wide bottom. How about a picture of the plow?

After the latest articles on Roundup, glyphosate, and the bad affects on our water supply, antibiotics, and possibly cancer we were predicting at the diner that plows and cultivators will be coming back. None the less, I am sympathetic to saving our soil. There must be a better way.

I tried plowing with the JD 4200 roll-over plow a couple days ago at the urging of my organic neighbor. I did the worst job of my life. I could not get the plow to scour and it was so wet the mud would pile up on the moldboards 8" deep. I wasn't plowing just pushing mud. After much scraping I just quite. Since then it has rained at least 3 ".

Before I go out again I will try WD-40 and possibly diesel fuel to help with the scouring. The organic farmer has a field real sandy on one side I might plow.

Thanks for the picture.

Paul
 
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