Market Farming

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In case anyone hasn't mentioned it yet, the owner's manual for your plow can be a helpful resource for getting your plow mounted on your tractor properly and preparing your tractor for plowing. 

Kurt Forman Clearview Farm Palmyra, NY 14522

--- cs13 AT cornell.edu wrote:

From: "Carla Shafer" <cs13 AT cornell.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How to Plow
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:17:16 -0500

In trying to wrap my head around all the ins and outs of tillage (and non-tillage) I've run across some great resources. Here are a couple of good ones relating to plowing:

1.  Steel in the Field: a Farmer's Guide to Weed Management Tools -- This SARE publication is available in its entirety online, but well worth the purchase price for your own farm library copy, in my opinion.
2. How to Use Your Tractor: Creating a Seedbed -- An archived article from the Yesterday's Tractor magazine that covers the basic techniques of plowing and discing. (While you're on the YT website, check the archives for other articles that may be of interest, as well.)
3. How to set up a plow -- a post to the SSB Tractor forum, with a beginner's tip for how to adjust a plow the first time you use it.
4. Finally, I seem to recollect a useful discussion about bringing some fallow fields into production on this very list. I can't say exactly when it was. But it might be worth a perusal of the archives, if my memory serves me.
   

All the best,

Carla Shafer

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Andy Fellenz <fellenz AT fltg.net> wrote:

I'm scaling up and looking for information on setting up and operating
larger equipment, specifically the best way to open up and plow fields
which have been mowed, but not planted in a long (>15 years) time.  Up
to now I've usually worked up 1/4-1/2 acre at a time at the most and
used a 3pt mounted rototiller.

I'll be planting larger areas next year and am looking for good how-to
guides.  On the equipment side for the larger fields I have an Allis
Chalmers 180 (~70hp) with a 14" Oliver plow (plow can be set up as 3 or
4 bottoms), 8' disk, 12' disk, 8' cultipacker, 10' cultimulcher, 8'
S-Tine cultivator.  I've mowed the field this season and may have time
to get out and fall plow if it makes sense.

Andy
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