Posted by John in La on June 26, 2013 at 19:57:44 from (184.38.174.30):
Here are a few pictures of how farmers in my area deal with 60+ inches of rain a year. First they chisel plow the field; then grade it to get the field as level as they can.
Then they will start to row the ground up and cut a ditch across the rows that drains to a drainage ditch on the side of the field. They will clean out the drainage ditches about once every 4 years and spread the dirt over the field to try and catch any erosion runoff.
They will keep working the land till the rows are large.
Here is a picture of the tractor with the attachment that makes the ditch. It runs off the PTO and has a wheel that digs the dirt out and will broadcast the dirt over the field.
These fields lay fallow 1 year out of 4 so they have time to work around the rain and get it right.
This is what it looks like once the crop is planted.
And a couple of pictures of how the crops look today.
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