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southern MN | You folk must not have ground squirrel, pocket gophers, badgers, and other critters?
After 5-6 years its about impossible to mow and bale a field on the bumps and holes. Can't stay in the tractor seat.
I have no idea how notill can work on row crops, it sure couldn't in alfalfa around here. I would think your row crop fields would get terribly bumpy and hole filled. There is no notill around here.....
I just mowed and mostly baled an acre of grass pasture in my neighbors pasture. The safety latch popped 6-7 times, there are areas the grass isn't really cut because the disc mower flew up so high over mounds. And I was driving about what I used to with a sickle mower, very slow. My bale basket didnt feed right spit out several bales and jammed because of the rough ground. I won't do that again next year, unless he lets me rework that patch and get it level. Its not worth it. I'll wreck something.
It has to be different 'there' than it is here, because one couldn't possibly plant into the rough stuff one gets in 5 years or so 'here'.
I just worked up a 1/4 mile grass field road, the gophers and whatever is making the large open holes made it impossible to go with a loaded wagon. I ran the field cultivator over it one day, that scuffed up the green grass, slightly leveled some mounds. The next day I took the soil saver disk chisel and made 2 passes. Really worked it up nice.
Followed that with 2 passes with the field cultivator, and made a real nice level seed bed. Hope the soil saver points went deep enough to take out most of the old tunnels, so the critters have to start out fresh again.....
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what is your favorite tool to break hay ground
