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Post by MN Slick on Oct 6, 2017 15:33:01 GMT -6
How much validity is there in the theory that tillers are hard on soil in the long run? Old Yoder claims his plots started going downhill after a few years of tilling blah blah blah. Will tilling a couple inches deep be ok for organic matter? I’m thinking about selling my Kasco Versa Drill and going to a tiller since my plan of increasing my food plot acreage and adding beans isn’t going to happen. The drill is serious overkill for the acreage I’m planting. A tiller would allow me to incorporate my fertilizer and battle the inevitable debris that gly doesn’t seem to kill these days a bit easier too.
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Post by Tooln on Oct 7, 2017 1:35:44 GMT -6
No till has been the big ticket for a while. But I do believe that more farmers are finding it's not all it's cracked up to be. As far as Yoder's concerned, he just another ass who believes he's never wrong. Myself I see nothing wrong with tilling and sallow maybe even better. MO's a farmer maybe he can give his opinion.
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 7, 2017 5:07:23 GMT -6
There's lots said about soil microbes and stuff that might die or get set back if the soil is tilled. It may all be true, but the fact is that farmers tilled this land for the last 100yrs and got pretty decent yields while doing it. It might be hard on the soil to till it but I wouldn't think twice about doing it IF YOU WANTED TO. If you do and plots start to go down hill in a few yrs add more inputs (like the proper fertilizers). I don't think you will ruin your dirt to try a different means to the end. If you ultimately don't like it then go back to no-till.
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Post by wildfire123 on Oct 7, 2017 14:36:46 GMT -6
Old farmers would put manure on their land.
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