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Crawfordsville, Arkansas | We bed on 60" centers. Air flow wheat on, harrow it in and bed it up. The beds are what we plant double crop beans on. Most burn the straw but we,plant through it. No need to tear the beds down and start over unless you just really like extra field work. Wet years are a bit harder but usually we can keep the beds intact unless its a slopfest.
You won't irrigate on 15" centers. 30" is common and 38" beds are the most popular here. Old holdover from the cotton years. I personally like the 60" bed as its wide enough to get a few rows of crop on top and still narrow enough for the water to wick to the centers when irrigating. We tried a 76" bed which is two 38" rows combined but we never got a good watering.
4640 will tote a 20 footer easy. That size will build four 60" beds or six 38" beds. Much wider and you really need a mfwd. We run a Brandt 40' wide and its HEAVY! But it will flat cover ground in a day time without killing yourself. | |
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