Why.....in this day and age?

[sumdumguy]

Verticle discs have been a boon on some land that we had to clean up. Pot holes mit de cat tales- gone.

[SASKFARMER]

No further north no one lives in it

[farmaholic]

That's one way to spread clubroot

Fusarium, aphanomyces, and who knows what else.

Luckily they haven't found clubroot here "yet".


I've seen this shit first hand at home years ago, you can hardly wait for the hurricane to subside at the end of the day.
All it needs is a start and the abrasion just keeps working on areas that haven't started yet.

[mbratrud]

We have got some of this stuff... Last year our lentils were a disaster wind, rain, hail had them glued to the ground. As an emergency measure we worked standing lentils with a Protill last so it would be ready to seed this spring. Some of these windy dry days a painful reminder why we don't till. If i had to do it over again i probably would, as there were not many good options. As for a regular farming practice i don't get it. Cant get something growing on that stuff fast enough.

[FarmJunkie]

Every machine has a place. Especially some of the wetter areas in western Canada. Works good here on pea and soybean stubble. We even use it on our wheat stubble if planting Canola the next year. Some years it never moves but handy to have some years when too wet. From Farmas comments on farming in the ghetto I think that machine shud stay in the yard. The dealers yard!

[mbratrud]

We have got some of this stuff... Last year our lentils were a disaster wind, rain, hail had them glued to the ground. As an emergency measure we worked standing lentils with a Protill last so it would be ready to seed this spring. Some of these windy dry days a painful reminder why we don't till. If i had to do it over again i probably would, as there were not many good options. As for a regular farming practice i don't get it. Cant get something growing on that stuff fast enough.

. Putting some structure back in the soil.

[furrowtickler]

Absolute zero till is a wreck here 8/10 years . But many other areas it’s a must. A few extra degrees of soil temp is critical here those 8/10 years . Frost and seedling diseases will take a toll big time.
Every area is different, go 15 miles East , west , south or north of here and it’s different world.
But Farma you a bring up a very valid point , it took 10,000 years to put the top soil there , one can not afford to lose any ... period