To Harrow or Not Harrow

[furrowtickler]

They have to heavy harrow with seed Hawks - they basically have zero trash clearance . Two sides to every story .
It has been counter productive to do nothing in the fall in this area - it called spring frost unless you seed canola after the 25 th of May

[hobbyfrmr]

Agreed, and its working well for them.

[Ache4Acres]

Thanks all. I agree on the fall gly...especially this year..lots of green out there. Will try harrow a bit this fall or even some vertical tillage and use it as a bit of test for next year. The proof is in the pudding but sometimes test results are hard to determine because of the weather wildcard. What is good one year is bad the next.

[furrowtickler]

Tried the gates coulter harrow on pea stubble the other day . Conditions were damp ,70% humidity - I was pretty impressed. The counters cut the straw and can set the harrow pressure and tine angle from cab . Left a very nice job - no piles once set right at about 11.5 mph. It's a 60ft forewarn fold design - worked very well behind the tbt bourgault air tank . Thinking an air kit on er to put on dry fert and or granular herbicide if needed.
The counters can be in or out of the ground from the cab depending on the job you want to do.
Could be a very versatile set up - even more so than the case turbo till I have been using.
Plus I can get more ac/ hr done on less fuel
The turbo till is 42 feet and pulls harder at 8.5 mph the the gates at 11.5

[wakopa]

Gonna spray roundup then harrow in spring to do two jobs in one. Been over these fields for over 40 years ,