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| Here, on our operation, we raise A LOT of grass hay. We are constantly dealing with the sod when rotating. There are 2 good methods that have worked for us. We only raise hay for now, so the way we do things might be different than you would. The first, we make a pass with a disk, and then run a large rotary tiller through the field (http://www.nwtiller.com). It is a slow process, but leaves a perfect seedbed when done. Unfortunately these are very expensive machines. The second method we use is to simply disk the field 2-3 times and then moldboard plow it. This does a good job of getting the sod buried, but you have a lot more work involved. You have at least 3 passes over the field and then you still have to make it seedbed ready which will require a few more passes. We prefer when possible to run the tiller, but if it gets a little moist it doesn't work very good and we switch to plowing. It really isn't feasible for you if you have just one field, whereas we are doing this every year. If it were me, and the field was HERE, I would disk and then moldboard. But your circumstances are different than mine and you may have erosion concerns. Whereas it's not a problem HERE. No-till might be a good option for you going into row crops | |
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Plowing sod
