Posted by paul on October 05, 2010 at 06:22:50 from (66.44.133.71):
In Reply to: Why plow at all? posted by KYfarm on October 05, 2010 at 04:42:39:
Up here in the cold, wet, clay soil of Minnesota, you need to get rid of the trash, so the soil warms up & dries out in spring. Our frost can be 4 feet deep,w e can have flooding snow melts every spring.
A disk & clay are a bad combination here. Makes pavement like surface, packing & compacting the clay into bricks.
Getting a planter to place corn seed acurately in the trash left from last year's cornstalks can take some very expensive attachments. Hairpinning, seed-soil contact, seed depth, and so on can be issues with corn seed especially.
Those are the issues one runs into.
You can do it, you can deal with it, your climate might make it easier, but that's the issues.
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