My friend Kathy has a two-acre hayfield that has fallen into disuse which we plan to use for a wheat crop. The field is extremely rutted, so I began by discing the entire field once. This helped a little bit.
I plan to keep the field bare until most of the weeds are dug up and dried out, and then put a cover crop of oats and peas on. I will probably use it for spring wheat in 2018.
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| This is Brian's 3-16 plow attached to my Case 1494, and 85 hp diesel unit I found on craigslist. This combination ran well, although I occasionally ran out of traction in wet areas. Like everything else in our area, this field still had some wet spots. |
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| We did make some straight furrows, which I'm very happy about! |
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| The soil was turned over well in most places. Especially towards the end, when the bottoms were mostly scoured, things ran well. |
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