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tennessee | I was very reluctant to notill when I started farming on my own back in the mid 90's. I worked all my ground for a couple of years then tried bout half of my acres in notill--found out that it would work! If I had to go back to moldboard plowing, discing 2 to 3 times, etc.. I would not be farming today. All that tillage used to be fun when I was a kid, but now I get my fix with just the garden. I guess the question should be--If you live below the mason dixon line why wouldn't you notill? I know it will work down here and it saves and builds our most precious asset--SOIL. I completely get the reasons why guys don't do it up north, just to cold and wet late in the spring. Notill is the best thing I ever did on this farm, but I promise you fellas if my grandpa saw me planting into non-plowed ground, he'd think I'd done lost my mind. He's been gone 25 yrs. now but we worked it all when he was around. To each his own. | |
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Why not no-till question
