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southern MN | Dad did it a lot here in the old days, spring plowing. His way of controlling Canadian thistle...... (It wasn't so successful....)
We were in a period of lots of spring rains, so it worked for him as the frequent rains would mellow out the lumps some but ya know, he wasn't on a plant early, high yield program!
I have 38 acres I winter the cattle on, have done many different things to work that up in spring over the years, often disking with the very small light 3pt single disk and going through with the field cultivator a week later ends up the best spring option. With manure, cattle hoof traffic, and some round bale feeding no tilling in an area that doesn't notill to start with is not an option, but the heavy spring tillage only works on special years. Often good to chisel up the hay feeding area and do the lighter tillage on the bulk of the acres. Have to be careful to not work the feeding areas too early, the frost stays under the old hay a lot longer.
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A moldboard plowing question - pulling a wire
