Fall tillage?

[Rich M]

What farm practices do you do?

I have a nephew who is big on organic farming. He went to school for it.

 

[Pony Soldier]

Great concept for farm ground with thick light soil. I have high clay content from decomposing granite. Over time the soil gets harder and harder with vegetation limited to woody forbs. I plowed 11 acres 2 years ago and I ended up discing it 13 times to prep it for planting.

I plowed when my production was down to 1 bale per acre. I seeded it to canadian brome, alsike clover and timothy. I expecting that this summer will yield 250 bales and next year about 1/3 more. That will steadily decline after that for 10-15 years depending on the number of drought years until the ground gets so hard you can't get a plow to penetrate it.

The ground is frozen until june and the snow starts in august and is frozen in september. In the land of permafrost plowing is necessary to recondition my hay fields for continued production. Erosion is very limited with minor dust - very briefly.

 

[gbflyer]

Great concept for farm ground with thick light soil. I have high clay content from decomposing granite. Over time the soil gets harder and harder with vegetation limited to woody forbs. I plowed 11 acres 2 years ago and I ended up discing it 13 times to prep it for planting.

I plowed when my production was down to 1 bale per acre. I seeded it to canadian brome, alsike clover and timothy. I expecting that this summer will yield 250 bales and next year about 1/3 more. That will steadily decline after that for 10-15 years depending on the number of drought years until the ground gets so hard you can't get a plow to penetrate it.

The ground is frozen until june and the snow starts in august and is frozen in september. In the land of permafrost plowing is necessary to recondition my hay fields for continued production. Erosion is very limited with minor dust - very briefly.

When building a road in that stuff and the constructor can’t achieve necessary compaction, they go get the disk. 13 times should do the trick. Lol.






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[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Couple pics from my neighbor’s yard from last year. This happens every year across the state.