We have had some dry spring weather some years around here and the soils have clay. These soils can get quite hard and it can be very difficult to get a plow to suck in. One year I welded or lets say extended existing shares on an IH 5 bottom with old shares. The farmer I helped seemed to do this some years, I had never seen it done or used in the field. Knowing the rocks, the abrasiveness of the clay/loam/gravel like soils with areas that have large round or otherwise smooth glacial till rocks, I used larger 7018 electrode, 5/16" if I recall, turned up the heat and laid some stout welds with the Miller NT 251 trailblazer welder I have. He had an older Miller A/C welder but I brought mine over to do this. He could not get the plow to suck in this one side of a large hill field, just to dry, but this worked and he wore those off or until he put new shares on, nothing broke. Some years its wet, normal, others like this. Another problem was compaction, part of that side is where you travel through to get to the other fields further back, more traffic on that area, loaded trucks, machinery etc.
Ironically, in 2010, I planted several food plots, in areas that were crop land 20-30 years prior, really lush top soils from years of vegetation growing before I reclaimed it by mowing. There was some clay in low areas that will get soft when wet, but the soils plowed with worn shares and an improperly adjusted plow. It rolled over and was like baby powder. We had a long dry spell that summer, this was a fall planting in late august. The milkweed all wilted and never formed any seed heads, it was that dry, lush field of grasses with some weeds all turned tan on the hill near the house, never saw that before, when I cut it, it was terrible, like harvesting a grain crop with an open station machine, the chaff dust was miserable. I was surprised the plow worked at all, we did get rains soon after and the plots grew nicely.
With what you describe, I would be real concerned about wind erosion. I have areas that I reclaimed and the top layers of top soil is black fines, when dry turn to dust, its incredible soil, but you will soon lose that layer to erosion, and any crop land in regular use will never show any black top soils in this area, even with heavy manure applications. I've learned not to plow deep, or risk soil erosion given what I see here. Its amazing what is in the top layers after 30+ years of being abandoned or overgrown, hard to imagine what was there way back when the fields were first cleared.
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