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Post by duplin97 on May 27, 2012 15:00:38 GMT -5
I want to know what you guys do to prep your soil before planting. I use a disc mostly to till the soil after every plant as most farmers do around my state. I have heard of alot of people using chisels though? Does a ripper/chisel still break up the left over corn stalks and plant residue after harvest because that is the main reason I till my soil.
I want to here your answers!
Thanks
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Post by Southern on May 27, 2012 20:48:28 GMT -5
Most our guys usually break out the offset disks. That was our main go to for tillage. They are heavy and can dig down. To really chew up the ground. The farms also has a ripper (chisel) or a disk chisel have saw some of those. But they only used them if necessary. The cotton farmers loved the disk chisel as it really knocked down the stalks. The local farmer used to do squash. Which required to pick in the mud. He ripped that up since the mud would turn into prehistoric concrete. Due to our clay based dirt. Which the offset disk can't penetrate that.
This is how we used to do it. Since the late 90s tillage phased out and now we all no-till. Grain, corn, cotton its all no tilled. Now the veggie growers, they still till.
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Post by Chris Colflesh on May 28, 2012 1:50:34 GMT -5
here in central ohio some will chisel plow, deep rip, moldboard plow (rare),and th e extremely rare offset disk, or just leave it to notill after harvest
in the spring its disk, vertical tillage, and field cultivators
to answer your question disk rippers usually do a pretty good job of tearing up corn stalks if set right
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Post by duplin97 on May 28, 2012 6:43:22 GMT -5
Thanks for all of the answers. I have an offset disc I use mostly to till old ladies gardens, good and fun job that pays pretty nice. About 80 to 90$ a garden.
Southern, a lot of the guys on the eastern part of the state still till, any reason why more guys on the western side do no till?
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Post by Southern on May 28, 2012 10:12:23 GMT -5
Thanks for all of the answers. I have an offset disc I use mostly to till old ladies gardens, good and fun job that pays pretty nice. About 80 to 90$ a garden. Southern, a lot of the guys on the eastern part of the state still till, any reason why more guys on the western side do no till? Soil erosion was a big factor. Since we most our fields are hilly and use terraces. When big rains come it would create washouts. Which was not good. As you lost a lot of good top soil and it would end up in the woods at the lower ends of the field. And you would have to plow the terraces about every 2-3 years to build them back up. Plus with advances in no till practice, once we saw how simple it was to work. That became our new method to plant. Since all you do is plant, spray and wait til harvest. You save fuel, equipment hours, and man hours. So that means more cash in your pocket. |
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Post by AgriKing on May 28, 2012 20:36:53 GMT -5
Corn on Corn:
Fall:
Lightly Disk
Hit it with Disk ripper.
Spring:
Hit with Field cultivator, maybe twice. Depends how fast we get into the field.
Corn into soybeans: field cultivate it
Beans into corn: disk it pretty much no till it.
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Post by mnjosh on May 29, 2012 21:31:34 GMT -5
In the spring, we use a field cultivator. In the fall we chisel plow wheat and soybean stubble; corn we will plow it.
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Post by treymo on May 31, 2012 12:49:51 GMT -5
Dryland is strictly no-till. Ground work is an absolute no-no in this area due to wind erosion. Irrigated isn't as strict as dryland as far as ground work but we are much stricter then most. Lots of strip tillage and vertical tillage. We will occasionally rip and field finish.
Trey
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Post by bracebros on Jun 1, 2012 12:40:12 GMT -5
In new jersey there alot use chisel plows there still veggie guy and photo guy use moldboard plows this year i seen lot guy with DMI and ripper its almost like there replace the moldboard plow around here and chisel plow were i work we use 22ft chisel to almost our land and 6 row sub soiler to break hard ground up me person way i like disk ripper or dmi or chisel plow the way to go
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Post by CRFarms on Jun 1, 2012 14:56:25 GMT -5
When we farmed we would normally moldbard plow fall and spring. It'll seemed to work out really well. A disk on many instances will leave a smoother finish, depending on settings. At my job, we do custom work and many guys will have light tillage in fall and then a heavier or we run the Salford RTS a lot of times. The disk will run behind with a packer usually to follow up.
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Post by jasons on Jun 1, 2012 21:22:35 GMT -5
We deep till everything in the fall. We used to use disc rippers on the corn but we switched to a Landoll disc chisel a few years ago. In beans we use a V ripper. In spring time it's either a VT disc or field cultivator depending on soil conditions. However we just replaced our VT disc with a diamond harrow so I'm not real sure how great that's going to work going forward. I don't like not having a disc on the farm but I only get 1/3 of the votes. lol
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