Ploughing and drilling late October 2019. RTK.

[@mr.garden2121]

Very clean ploughing

[@NickRivis]

Many thanks

[@RJ1999x]

I am curious as to why you plow the ground. Asking as a farmer, that hasn't plowed in years but thinking about starting on a rotating basis

[@NickRivis]

Thanks for your comment. We usually plough for growing Winter barley, second wheats and for potatoes. The rest we tend to min til eg. autocasting rape, planting rape stubbles with wheat and even spring barley. Our main reasons for partially ploughing are generally better yields, grass weed control and limiting disease. We used to plough everything! But what we are doing now with plough and min til seems to work for us! Many thanks...

[@NickRivis]

Sorry, got it wrong. We don't autocast rape, but sow it with a sumo trio cultivator, and we also plough beans in.

[@RJ1999x]

@@NickRivis Thanks for the reply. I wish I could send pictures through KZbin, but we partially plowed a field 10 years ago, had an injector come loose on the tractor and pulled the plow out of the ground and drove it to the edge of the field to fix. We never got back to finish the field, so just ripped it in the spring. Last spring you could still see where we plowed, right to the point we stopped and picked the plow out of the ground, it's so pronounced I took a picture of it. Nobody can tell me why it did that, I think we brought up new "bugs" and energized the soil.

[@NickRivis]

Hi again. That sounds interesting. We once split a field that was a bean stubble, half ploughed, half min tilled, and put wheat in. Both parts looked well, but come harvest the ploughed part yielded an extra 1 tonne/hectaire. We were not sure why, but there does seem to be a bit of magic that takes place with ploughing. Compaction isnt an issue, and both plough and min till remove it anyway. Running costs for both systems are similar, although ploughing is a bit slower!

[@RJ1999x]

@@NickRivis it's slower, but I love to plow! Lol

[@jedenzwielu920]

Jak to robisz ze plug z przodu ci nie ucieka w bruzde albo zaorane tylko 1 skiba rowno idzie z bruzda ?

[@NickRivis]

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