Deere9670
Senior Member
15 mph is flying pulling tillage tools.
Yes....10 is about tops....and thats quick I would bet that the cultivator would ride up out of the ground at 15mph!
15 mph is flying pulling tillage tools.
Yes....10 is about tops....and thats quick I would bet that the cultivator would ride up out of the ground at 15mph!
Gday all, please, oh PLEASE send some rain over here to West oz! Its really dry around here and we havent turned a wheel (or a track in our case). We normally crop around 10000 acres (wheat mainly) and it would be nice to get a start. There is a old saying around here that you cant make money from dust! Oh well thats my winge, I hope you blokes get the sun that you need. Cheers.
I am sure some of the IL buys would share their rain with you.
We where only 15 acres of beans away from being done for the season when we got rained out Tuesday evening. We got a nice rain though about an inch spread out over 24 hrs.
We have an old saying that goes plant in the dust and your bins will bust :tong
We got 3.5" of rain friday and all the rivers are out. We wont be pulling a planter for a while.
No, that isnt even bottom ground. As you say, the water table is so high even on ground that isnt near any rivers. We do have some bottom ground we havent even got near. We got a bit ahead of the planter on tillage, :Banghead:Banghead for once we thought wed get ahead well with the rain 2 days dry rain cycle, by the time we get ready to plant it we will probably have to go over it again to break the crust that is on top up and to bring some of the "wet back up". The top 2 or 3 inches gets dry but it is very wet under that. Some of the ground had winter wheat on it but had a VERY poor stand so we spray ed that to kill it. Double disced it to get it worked down half way decent and then went across it with a culvator and drag. Might have to go across it again with the culivator and drag. Good luck to everyone on a year like thisjdman,
you farming bottom ground?
your describing a similiar set of circumstances as guys in our area who farm near the IL river. been over 20' for 2+ months (flood stage being 14'). keeps pushing the water table higher. we have an irrigation depth meter, went to our low farm and it had the water table at 2' feet!
anybody figured out a plan to get across ground like this?
we flew on beans with a plane once. it didnt work. you had to harrow them in.
we are hoping to get a small/light tractor and a drill and maybe get across that 160 of quick sandy ground. should be a treat.