Posted 12/13/2023 17:41 (#10523085 - in reply to #10522933) Subject: RE: Shallow plowing
That's an old wives' tale. We plowed about 200 ac this year. Run 16" IH plows 12" deep, 250+ corn, non chopping head no stalk prep ahead of the plows. Growing up back in the late '50s / earl'60s we plowed 10" deep with 14" plows. Did chop stalks back then with a flail chopper.