Friday Crop Report

[SASKFARMER]

Farming and the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

We always try a few new things each year and assess over a three year return if it works or not. We always give any new thing three years.

Looking at something along the lines of a organic Nitrogen. More to follow.

[woodland]

Drone pictures from last summer definitely showed the benefits of deep ripping two falls ago
Can see exactly where the shanks even started in ground …

Hey Furrow
What kind of ground was this and what kind of depth/spacing did you rip? Might make for some interesting plots

Just curious……….

[makar]

Anytime I deep ripped here a monsoon hit and turned the soil to plasterscene.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Hope lake agassiz doesn't fill up I am close to the edge but would still be under by about 60 feet . It would be deeper yet where those cats are working. But that was back when dino's ruled.

Actually, it was only about 10,000 years ago. Just missed the dinosaurs by a mere 66 million years.

[Old Cowzilla]

Whoops I'm bad guess I should have spent more time in history class. Guess my sandbar is not as old as I think it is.

[furrowtickler]

Hey Furrow
What kind of ground was this and what kind of depth/spacing did you rip? Might make for some interesting plots

Just curious……….

It was a 5 shank , 30 inch space
I did a few low areas , small seasonal potholes and a couple compacted headlands
mostly in clay based soil where compaction is an issue
this is another strip I did on a headland…

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Woodland, I may have mentioned this to you before, but I have a five shank 30 in V ripper which I no longer use. You are welcome to try it out if you want. I never could see a difference.

[furrowtickler]

Anytime I deep ripped here a monsoon hit and turned the soil to plasterscene.

I could definitely see that happening. That is a risk

[furrowtickler]

I am very interested in what TAS and seedman brought up . Definitely makes sense .
What type of depth’s, spacing and size of machine used .
Those are the informative posts .
Will definitely consider the ideas , Easy and cheap to put a liquid system on .
Add with water ? Volumes used ?

[furrowtickler]

Need to try Nichole Masters technique. 1 cup of molasses and and couple pounds of humic acid/acre. When ripping

With water ?

[SASKFARMER]

Degelman has a deep ripper they sell in the southern USA its not available in Canada its something we are looking at also.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

When adding these products with a subsoiler, is the intention to have the liquid fall to the bottom of the trench, or just onto the Disturbed soil behind?