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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | All of our land here is irrigated, and keeping it as flat as possible is very important, even on sprinkler irrigated fields to prevent puddling. On gravity fields it paramount. A decent operator with a rollover can plow the whole field and not change the grade or leave any ridges or low spots that would interfere with the water flow. We are talking fields that have been leveled to .5 slope, maybe 1500' runs. You don't want to put a ridge through that, and with irrigation residue is an issue, so you end up plowing or disking and burning stubble every year.
The other reason for plowing is guys planting small seeded crops, like onions here. They want it black. Production costs are well over $2k, probably 3k, so an extra few dollars to make a clean seedbed is cheap insurance. No matter how your filling in deadfurrows, you'd be bringing some trash back to the surface. The whole point of plowing is to bury it 6 inches deep or more, so the rototillers following the plow don't bring the trash back up to the surface. | |
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MF 57 Roll-over Plow
