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Tried to plough down a hay field

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Winter kill wiped out nearly everything in this field except for Timothy and Dandelions. So I gave it a coating of manure, it will be corn silage next year. Then after a rainy day Tuesday, I hoped I could get the plough into the ground, and bury the manure. Apparently the rain we got wasn?t enough to make the going easy, and I have been getting a miserable job of ploughing, and my half worn plough shears are now completely worn out.
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So today?s job is remove and replace plough shears, and go back and try to finish. I want to get this mess worked over, and smoothed out some and give it another coating of manure. Things are very dry here, and September is just a few days away, let?s hope we don?t see frost till mid October.
 
Well, at least it's black.....probably burned a good chunk of diesel as well. We missed all the rain the last few days as well.

Ben
 
Sounds like the summer we had here last year Bruce. We didn?t get rain from early July till late August last summer. Thankfully this one was a lot better. Not a lot of rain but enough to keep things growing. Potato crops here last year were down in many cases by 30%. Insurance helped soften the blow but that?s about it.
 
With the grape crop filling out, the weak posts make themselves evident. I lost the end post on a row last week, an eight-inch round wood post. I waited until after our most recent rain, and got right to it, but this one was on the clay hill portion of our vineyard- the moisture was only a couple inches deep. Tough digging below that to get a foot of the stump exposed. The loader tractor had all it wanted to pull it out-had to work it forward and back under pressure.

At least it was not one of the railroad ties, a lot heavier to replace.
 
My chisel plough tends to drag the manure and plug up. Also, unless I were to burn the field down, Dandelions just seem to wiggle through the chisel, and laugh. Plough cuts the Dandelions off, and covers the manure.
 
I am hoping to climb into my 931 and start plowing oat stubble this coming week. The oats looked really good after the late start, but it turned dry and they just seemed to stall and turn gray. My uncle said they had blight, but he got the seed company to come in and they gathered crop samples and soil samples. They found the problem to be mites that damaged the plants. They also said there was a lacking of predatory insects in the soil that kill the mites. There was one field that they just left standing. Wasn't worth the time and cost to run the combine over the ground. That will be the first field to plow down. The oat market here has been good for the farm for several years with direct sales to customers. The poor crop will hurt the profit picture, and the straw bales do not have that nice golden color so prices will be down there also.------Loren
 
The way the nights are feeling right now I am not betting on a late frost. Summer didn't come until the second week of July and it left the third week of August. Not the nicest year around here.
 
Around here chisel plows never got that popular. They pulled too many rocks. We have lots of limestone bed rock and ledges and out croppings. Auto reset plows will work over the ledges. Chisel plow just hooked into them and pulled big slabs of rock up, or parts brake. No-Till is gaining popularity as there are no shanks on no till planters, but then a comprehensive weed control program is needed--------Loren
 
I'll bet it plows deeper and easier when you get them replaced! Do you have coulters on your plow? I also believe they make it pull and plow easier/better.Mark.
 
It didn't look like you were going very deep. With worn out shares that would be a real problem on sod.
 
I found a chisel plow will do a nice job on sod especially if you drag a harrow behind it and then you don?t have all the big gobs of sod left by the moldboard plow . Of course after I plow sod I just fire up the lely and And it will tear up and level anything out that the plow left
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This was alfalfa and sod
 
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