Alsace 47°52'46"N 7°24'30"E | I have been told a few things and the more I think about them the more obvious they are to me:
- your soil prep begins with harvest: if you harvest is such conditions that the combine & grain cart make compaction you should better wait a few days and allow your soil to drain and give you better floatation ... an alternative is to empty your combine & grain cart earlier.
- never ever work with tillage tools when it's too wet: you make things worse!
- take into consideration that it takes a couple of years to correct what you can mess up in a couple of days!
- if you don't have patience, consider plowing or ... taking a vacation: things will have settled by then.
- as someone said, spring tillage and strip-till are probably a viable alternative. But do not mess things up by working in the mud.
- let nature do it's part: frost and defrost are better than what you will ever be able to do.
With my dad we have been growing corn on corn *here* for over 20 years: waiting for ideal tillage conditions has paid each and every time while being in too much of a hurry, just because neighbors were out in the fields never was a good thing.
Your fields are like a lady: treat them good and they will flourish, treat them bad and they will rebel.
JMHO |
Fall tillage in the mud??
