Two issues came up here, your question about 'fall plowing', yes freezing furrows will help thick soil 'break up', making the spring easier, re-plowing or just discing a few rounds insted of a long hard fight. The furrows will also trap rain and snow if the field is usually too dry for some reason. I have a UMass school of ag extension book from 1871... they wanted people to plow in mid winter "to kill the evil worms that distroy crops'. Which brings up the no till comments. No till requires lots of expensive and toxic chemicals, weedkillers etc. As agribiz, or potential dust bowl area, it is worth the no till route, for smaller ops back east, to make any extra pennies, or a much better market, you want to keep trying for certified organic, whether animals or produce, and no till is a no go. In the 70's and 80's I knew lots of dairy people that wanted to try notill, so hired agway or some outfit to come in and do it, so's they didnt' have to buy the new equipment until convinced. No one I knew went over to it. If they stayed in business, and fed corn, they plowed. Sometimes there are more expensive things than diesel fuel...
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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