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NE ND | This wont help with stumps but we burned ours off in the fall. It only burns that years grass as the rest of it is laying down in the bottom in very small pieces. Burn it with a good wind and it will sweep over the ground so fast that it will leave the best of it. Ours was very rough from the gophers and moles. We put 14 inch sweeps on 12 inch spaced chisel plow. We ran it just low enough to touch the surface of the ground to level the hills off. No tilled beans into that then rolled it. Worked well. Yielded 23. Average here is only 28 to 30. We did have gopher mounds in it when we harvested. We chiseled it when we got the crop off. Seems to kill the gophers and moles off or at least makes them vacate the premise. We took another piece out a couple years ago. We tilled that field. It did not yield better or worse than no tilling so I think saying that tilling the field is going to ruin it is more theory than proof. Only problem with tilling is that once you make that first pass, you are committed to it until you get all the sod pieces sized down to manageable size. We started with a plow but it really only flipped the sod over so we still had to disc it 3x. Disced some of the field 2x then chisel plowed it 3 or 4 times. It really just ended up being a lot of passes, fuel and time and really didn't improve yields over no tilling it. Just close your eyes the first year, clean it up with round up and explain to the owner the first year will be sub average so you can get a little cheaper rent then assure him it will improve from there. | |
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Taking CRP out 1 more time
