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Post by nctobfarmer on Feb 21, 2012 21:10:22 GMT -5
I am seeing more turning plows used here this fall and winter than I have in the last 15-20 years. I know that we've had a lot of issues with glyphosate resistant palmer amaranth and this is supposed to be an answer to that. Still, it's strange to see so much land being worked that way. The majority of the land has been converted to some form of no-till/conservation tillage in my part of eastern NC. Anyway else seeing that in other parts of the country?
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Post by Chris Colflesh on Feb 21, 2012 22:40:58 GMT -5
IMO you have to roll the ground notill is great and cost effective to most vertical tillage has not really interested me at all
my family religiously moldboard plowed and still does but we are doing more notill so all of our wheat stubble and a couple hundred acres of corn stalks gets rolled under when my grandpa went out to plow his qoute out the door was "well im gonna go roll over my investments"
as far as anyone else here in ohio moldboards are almost unheard of alot of guys have them but only use them on ground that hasnt been farmed in an eternity
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Post by austin7930 on Feb 21, 2012 23:51:54 GMT -5
we have a JD 2500 5 bottom and a white 4 bottom, both are sitting in the grove and haven't moved for about 4 years now......i imagine the next time i'll use the JD is to plow under old alfafla and i'll keep my current stand for another 3 years. everything is DMI'd now (disk ripped) there are a few guys around that do some plowing, but still most is disk ripped, a few that do corn on corn on corn on corn on corn on corn plow a little to help the ground out some. But there is absolutely NO no till around here, the ground would never dry out in the spring if you don't till the ground.
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Post by rcfarms82 on Feb 22, 2012 8:06:21 GMT -5
About the only guys around here that still use moldboard plows are tobacco farmers, they turn over there ground every year.. As far as vertical till I don't see many at all in my parts, all the corn and bean farmers seem to be mostly no-till.. I couldn't probably even begin to count all the turning plows sitting in fence rows and such around here though..
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Post by mnjosh on Feb 22, 2012 11:27:32 GMT -5
We plow our cornstalks every year, weather permitting. Some years its been too wet to do anything. This past year we covered about 100 acres with our IH 720 5 bottom plow. It does a nice job burying all that trash. Plowing is making a slight comeback in our area, with disk ripping also very popular. We also have land were no tilling, specifically soybeans, works very well. In the 14-15 years that we have been no tilling soybeans, we are still in the minority.
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Post by TwoTone on Feb 22, 2012 14:50:14 GMT -5
We only plow when coming out of hay that is soddy. Everything else is lightly disked with the packer on and then strip tilled with liquid fert going in at two depths
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Post by AgriKing on Feb 22, 2012 15:23:59 GMT -5
we put our disk on a higher setting and going about 6mph with our disk. just to loosen up the soil and the stalks. my dad calls it cheap VT. lol. i think those vertical tillage tools are overpriced! then we hit it with a disk ripper then in the spring hit it with the fc. if its beans into corn we hit it with the disk then no til into it. we only work up soybean stubble with the fc if its going to corn
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Post by CRFarms on Feb 22, 2012 15:29:07 GMT -5
We still moldboard plow. A good many guys do. A small light tillage tool may not be able to handle the rocks.  |
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Post by nctobfarmer on Feb 22, 2012 16:23:58 GMT -5
It is interesting to see the "new" vertical tillage tools from Case and Deere this year. They look like regular disks with wavy blades and a rolling baket. Seems like it would be relatively easy to convert an existing disk to that if that's a tillage style you wanted to implement. I guess there is some difference in the gang angles, but it's hard to tell that by looking at them. Conversion is certainly less costly than a new 30-50k piece of equipment as well.
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Post by Chris Colflesh on Feb 22, 2012 16:34:21 GMT -5
It is interesting to see the "new" vertical tillage tools from Case and Deere this year. They look like regular disks with wavy blades and a rolling baket. Seems like it would be relatively easy to convert an existing disk to that if that's a tillage style you wanted to implement. I guess there is some difference in the gang angles, but it's hard to tell that by looking at them. Conversion is certainly less costly than a new 30-50k piece of equipment as well. thats all they are is a disk with famcy blades they just figured out hot to sell a disk again |
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Post by Southern on Feb 22, 2012 16:57:09 GMT -5
Only plow gets put to use here is in the garden. We are like 100% no till. Plows are like the dinosaurs, long gone.
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Post by nctobfarmer on Feb 22, 2012 17:06:50 GMT -5
Only plow gets put to use here is in the garden. We are like 100% no till. Plows are like the dinosaurs, long gone.[/quote That's what I thought too about plows until recently. That's why i started the thread. Lots of interest in them again here. I've noticed particularly the "new" version of these implements that have the rectangular blades that can be hydraulically moved from side to side. I thought it was an interesting dynamic to see. |
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Post by CDC on Feb 22, 2012 18:52:56 GMT -5
we run a 2011 995 jd 8 botom
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Post by bracebros on Feb 29, 2012 16:43:09 GMT -5
Were i use to work we run two moldboard plows 8 and 6 bottom there still use around me a lot the potato and veggie guys
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Post by treymo on Feb 29, 2012 22:17:20 GMT -5
We have a 7 bottom Case sitting in the trees. I think we run it once or twice a decade.. Lol If we get too serious we'll borrow the neighbors 12 bottom.
Trey
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Post by gmauch on Feb 29, 2012 23:05:20 GMT -5
We have a 5 bottom and 4 bottom that only get used every couple years. We only use them when we have major compaction problems. About 5 years ago we moved from full plow to a CIH disc ripper and couldnt be happier with the move. I would love to do less tillage but flood irrigation along with hay and silage make it hard to convert further.
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Post by The Lunchbox on Mar 1, 2012 10:48:46 GMT -5
My brother and I are going to plow a field, just to know whats going on. In case we have to plow because bug and weed resistance might be gone.
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Post by Southern on Mar 1, 2012 17:23:28 GMT -5
Here is my plowing set up. We have a one bottom for the Ford 8N. But I love this one far better. 1963 Ford 4000 with a John Deere 2 bottom with size 18s. You can tell its back there at times.   |
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Post by Quinton DeDecker on Mar 1, 2012 17:30:26 GMT -5
most of the farmers in my area, Southern ontario plow every spring, some moldboard and some chiesel plow. i know we moldboard or tobacco land every yead and sub soil the land we will use the next year every fall. our whole 200 acre farm is on a 2 year rotation.
Quinton
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