Posted by paul on November 06, 2016 at 19:54:22 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: Re: Tileing farm land posted by da.bees on November 06, 2016 at 18:28:25:
There is no possible way to grade the rolling hills I farm. Fields go up and down several times, 20-100 feet, across an 80.
The clayish slightly loam soils we have are old lake bottoms from when the glaciers melted.
They still hold water, saturated, for several months or more of the year. Several of my soil types are described as saturated, with the water table level with the ground.
We use tile to create a 2-3 foot area of good moist soil, without the totally saturated deal. Lower the water table a couple feet. Leveling the ground really would be pointless, it still would be saturated, totally wet? Sidehills can be the worst, they ooze out like springs for months.
Tile is dug or knifed in about 80 feet apart here, in the wet spots. The ditches and main tiles were put in in the 50s and 60s around here, back into the 1920s in some neighborhoods.
Dad and grandpa had about 50% of this farm in hay to feed the horses, ground was too wet to farm back when. No horses now, tile lets me farm 90% of the ground and raise good crops.
Had a miserable wet year this year, rained every 48 hours, terrible. Ending up with a reasonably good crop, good yields, despite all that. I'd have very little to harvest tho without the tile.
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