Spring Tillage will be here soon

[nctobfarmer]

Stopped by the farm today and saw that they're gearing up for spring tillage. The only land that is tilled now is what gets planted with tobacco. Everything else is no-tilled, with roughly 85 acres of tobacco, and 800 of corn, beans, and cotton.




The 7830 is the newest addition to the farm. An older Case 7120 was sold to help acquire this machine. Now the farm is all green horsepower. Normally, the tobacco land is disked twice, then field cultivated. After that, a 4 row ripper bedder is used to bed the land for tobacco. The tobacco is grown on 45" rows. The corn and cotton on 30" centers, no-tilled with some wheat and bean double cropping. Beans are either drilled or planted with the corn planter depending on the year and seed prices.


The 4450 on the field cultivator. Case disk and case FC. This is a 3 section folding 3 point hitch field cultivator, 21' working width.



The weather has been very wet, so it will be a little while before they go full bore. Riding around, I also saw some other guys out in the fields with the 995 Deere moldboard plows. Some folks in our area are doing that now as a way to get rid of some of the resistant pigweed. Neither of our farms are though.

[CRFarms]

Went by a neighbor today and saw a disc harrow sitting by a shed. That's about all I've seen.

[duplin97]

That 4450 looks great! How many gallons is that front tank?

I will start plowing for this years peanut ground in a few weeks. Most of the tobacco ground was planted into wheat to meet the rotation requirements for 2013. A lot of farmers have been busy ripping this past month mainly the headlands on bean ground. Started to see a few Tillage setups getting worked on, primarily by the main cotton farmers in the area.

Saw this Magnum south of Mount Olive.

Massey Ferguson 8160.

[nctobfarmer]

Duplin, that's a 300 gal tank on the 4450. It's the planting tractor as well.

[austin7930]

lucky.......after yesterday its totally white here again. won't be til the 3rd or 4th week of april at the EARLIEST around here. i might get the planter out mid march to work on it and put the new agleader controls on, but that will be about it.

[dodgeram]

Not much around here, been fairly wet. We did however, disc the dirt bike track this weekend to do a little riding I'll put up a pic of our discing set up later. Jared

[CRFarms]

Plow is just itching to go with the other one in the shop.

[steiger9330]

We'll get the disk out in a month to level a fence row we took out. Other than that, no tillage here.

[lane1486]

hah thats funny cause here we have about 1 1/12 feet of snow in the feilds!!!

[nctobfarmer]

In the South, we forget what snow looks like! The last snow with any accumulation was at least two years ago.