just a tish NE of central ND | No, I didn't read you other post. Im not a western grower so I didn't understand. You made a post and we replied. Take it for what it's worth. No harm meant...Tillage can be used in any kind of soils by anyone who want or needs it. Ill bet some of us have been out there passing through.
>> If you are growing alfalfa, you are already NO TILLING by growing a crop that comes up annually without having to replant every year. Every location is different. WE don't have irrigation on our light blow soils. There are places that do, but we don't. If we take alfalfa out of production, we sometimes just NO TILL into it with cereals or usually corn to get rid of the grasses and alfalfa and to let the roots rot undisturbed for the first years growing season and that works out pretty well for the first tillage trip after that crop. But many times, it just hit with tillage right away because it gets so rough and needs leveling but the root mas makes a horrible seed bed.So we try to avoid that and just go with the no till crop the first go around. Then we probably will go in with tillage and smooth out the fields for a season or two. Alfalfa is a tuff bugger to kill off.
Making hay at 10 mp seems a little excessive in speed to me. I cant even imagine how that must pound apart your hay machinery at 10 mph.But then again, maybe you dont get the pocket gophers and rodent damages etc in fields like we do perhaps?
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1 pass full tillage and seeding
