anderson farms
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If a guy wanted to plow up an acre or 2 to plant corn next year when do you do it? I have never planted a crop before and my son and I are doing it for the experience and to use for pod feed next year. The field is pasture now
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anderson farms
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We are in northern Missouri
anderson farms
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My son has a Massey 175 diesel, a 165 gas and a 2 bottom ford plow. Neither one of us has ever plowed anything before I believe it is a 2-16 plow
E.B. Haymakin'
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Not saying don't do it, but make sure your plow is set up right on the tractor. I have plowed one time with a borrowed moldboard, and due to my ignorance it wrecked the plot I was working. Fortunately I had a disc heavy enough to cut the clods down and relevel the ground. Deep south in previously worked ground. Maybe someone on here can recommend a utube vid on plow set up.
fastfarmall
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Well if its to dry now, what i do when i break sod, it to disk it, depending on how deep the disk go's in, but if you can work the ground now, next spring it will plow over a lot smoother,but next spring if its like my soil is, it got to be sealed up, with a harrow or a light disking,or both,and seed it before it drys out! spring plowing will warm up faster, but drys out faster too!
If you are in snow and freeze country, plow now.
If you are a warmer milder climate, seems they often plow in spring.
Us northern folk dont have several weeks to let the lumps mellow out in spring, we need to do the tillage in fall.as well our dirt freezes up and sits under a blanket of snow all winter; more southern locations the dirt is exposed to erosion and worse the general breakdown of the soils nutrients in the milder weather.
It is most certainly 2 different needs/ situations on how best to do things.
If you are a warmer milder climate, seems they often plow in spring.
Us northern folk dont have several weeks to let the lumps mellow out in spring, we need to do the tillage in fall.as well our dirt freezes up and sits under a blanket of snow all winter; more southern locations the dirt is exposed to erosion and worse the general breakdown of the soils nutrients in the milder weather.
It is most certainly 2 different needs/ situations on how best to do things.
I have attached a link to a John Deere integral plow, model 1000 operator's manual. You can read through it to help you understand how adjusting the plow works. Wheel spacing will be pretty critical for you when using a mounted plow, if you try to cheat on this a little, you will not be happy with the results. You are going to want to have approximately 2 to 3 of clearance between the inside sidewall of the right tire and the furrow wall. If you hook the plow to the tractor of your choice, and have the 3-point centered, then on a 16 plow, measure from the landside edge of the front bottom 18-19 to the inside of the rear tire. Front tires should be a little wider so you can steer without rubbing furrow wall. Then on a flat surface, you can drive the tractor up on block of wood, say 7-8 (if plowing 7-8 deep), under the left rear tire, and under the front left tire as well. Then you can lower the plow and make initial adjustments to level the plow side to side and get your front to rear preliminary adjustments as required as well.
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Traditional Farmer
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No one uses a turn plow in my area anymore,chisel plow and disk
RobCons
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Down here since its a new garden flush with grass I would plow it under now, again in the spring to get any sprouting that occurs over the winter, then run over it with a disc.
Here in northeast Wisconsin we always plowed our corn ground just before planting in mid to late May and the farmers around me who plow do it that way to this day. The organic farmers find that it will kill all the weeds and give everything, meaning the seed corn as well as the inground weed seed, an even start. Seeing as how your field is pasture now, just leave it and let it get some early growth in the spring and then plow and disc just before planting. Don't let the weeds get a head start.
coonie minnie
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One answer for you would be never. No till works well in many areas, especially into old sod.
I took this last month chopping silage. This land has seen NO tillage since 1983. It's been corn, beans, wheat, alfalfa all that time, but never plowed, disked, harrowed. It's a viable option that won't empty the fuel tank.
Note all the worm holes. They do all the work for you.
I took this last month chopping silage. This land has seen NO tillage since 1983. It's been corn, beans, wheat, alfalfa all that time, but never plowed, disked, harrowed. It's a viable option that won't empty the fuel tank.
Note all the worm holes. They do all the work for you.
Same in N. Tx. Blackland clay. BTOs with big discs and cultivators is what you see working and going down the road. Next door neighbor sold out and new renter was faced with acreage that hadn't seen anything but stemmy weeds and Johnson Grass for 10-15 years....a real mess. He hit it twice with a disc, ran the cultivators and spring fingers over it, planted wheat in the fall and had a bumper crop.
If you are in like my area northwest Ohio then forget about plowing until next September to plow> Ground now frozen and covered with snow. Spring plowing it will turn into like gravel, never get a good seedbed. It needs fall plowed to mellow out over the winter so it can be gotten to a decent seed bed
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