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Windom, MN | I rented 50 acres coming out of CRP 3 years ago and this is what I did.
It was burned in the spring, then I disked it once with an IH 490. I came back with the disk about a week later and disked it again running at a different angle. A 90 year old neighbor suggested the different angle to tear the grass roots and kill it better, I guess it's some old timer logic but I figured I would try it. A few days later I ran the field cultivator over it because it was still rather lumpy. It was going to be beans, so I planted a little slower than normal, then hired the neighbor to roll the field. The roller really smashed down the clumps and made combining easy.
I had good beans and was happy with the tillage passes. Since it is somewhat marginal ground, I did not want a ripper out there, all that would do is pull up rocks. Plowing was out because of some hillsides and I was doing this all in the spring. Spring plowing doesn't work so well here. I really only wanted to level it out and work the top 3 to 4 inches, which worked well. I still rent the farm and don't do deep tillage out there. No gullys washed or anything, so I will continue to manage this farm a little differently that the other ones. | |
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