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| We use one to break clods after we deep rip and molboard plow. Yep, then we harrow and roll and roll and roll till the ground is a fine dust on a windy day. Yessiree, and we might even do it every year........naw, jus kiddin.:-)
It has several uses here. We are only about an hours drive from the pacific ocean. Our ground dont freeze here. Lots of irrigated land that is well drained with tile. Very diverse crop rotaions available. Sometimes the disk actually is used for clod breaking. Sometimes a heavy disk with wide spacings and big diameter blades is used for primary tillage when rotating out of something with too much trash into something that requires very little trash. Since our winters are very mild by comparison, we often have soil born pest problems that tillage helps reduce or eliminate. Sometimes a disk is used to incorperate pesticides into the soil. Sometimes, again, since our soil dont freeze, while waiting for a planting date to come around, a quick once over with the disk will reduce the weed pressure and warm the soil after a cold rain in the spring. Depends what you're going to plant and what soil conditions that crop requires.
No-till and min-till is making a larger presence here all the time, but only for general cereals and small seeds that still use a disk opener planter. Fruits, vegetables, fallow land, and just plain old fashioned farmers, still use a disk in their operation from time to time. | |
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CIH 490 or 496 Disc?
