Re: wut is the purpose of plowing stupid question

Posted by VADAVE on April 19, 2007 at 16:08:06 from (72.196.249.148):

In Reply to: wut is the purpose of plowing stupid question posted by jlmtractor on April 19, 2007 at 12:19:47:

Boy you really want to stir up a debate.
There are two different schools of thought on plowing. You've one side and in general that is a pretty good position. The other side says there is no reason to plow and there is evidence that ground that has been in continuous no-till shows no decline in yields and better soil structure, plus it costs less in that there are less passes over the field and therefore less wear on the equipment and less fuel burned. The continious no-till group had footing until the arrival of the no-till drill. Prior to that the ground had to be worked up for a drill to work correctly.
My opinion--and that is what it is. The no-till boys are right in that it does cost less time and money to get the seed in the ground. I am trying it right now and so far my experience is that continious no-till is not necessary to see equal yields to tilled ground. My yields match! Year ago I till 1/2 of a field and no-tilled the other 1/2, otherwise treated the field the same--could tell the difference at harvest.
What I will say is that it doesn't matter, either tilled or no-tilled the fields need to be deep-tilled or ripped every so often to remove compaction. One more thing no-till drills and deep-till equipment are expensive particularly since they are relatively new.

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