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Hoisington, KS | I have fields that have been continuous no-till since 2007 get swept clean yesterday with 60mph south wind for over 6 hours. Then today it switched out of the west northwest at 50 mph for another 6 hours. We have been in extreme drought the last 2-3 years and wheat was zeroed out and ground laying fallow ready to go to milo this spring. For some reason any ground that I did some tillage on before drilling wheat in 2022, the wheat stubble stayed put for the most part. I have multiple fields though have been no-till since 2007 that the stubble just breaks off and then it's like a domino effect across the field and pretty soon it's a dust storm. My only guess on that is that the tillage wheat gets drilled a little deeper and a furrow is created. The John Deere air drill with No-till gets the seed in the ground fine, but it is a totally flat surface with no furrow.
I'm 49 and farmed my whole life and I don't recall these 60-100 mph wind days like we've had in the last 3 years 10, 20,30 years ago, but also we just don't get rains like we used to to grow a decent crop.
In December 2021 we had 100mph winds out of the west and heavy wheat stubble that year that was all blown away and 5 wire barb wire fences were blown straight over after that straw started catching and drifting up behind the fences. | |
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Why do some fields blow?
