Tillage

In our March cover story, we reported on the recent uptick in new tillage sales and reasons for the demand, those being excess crop residue and soil compaction left by consecutive seasons of wet weather.  (See http://farmindustrynews.com/tillage/tillage-gaining-ground-another-record-year-equipment-sales-forecast)....More

Last year in Pandora, Ohio, we had 55 in. of rain, which is way above the normal of 33 in. Many parts of Ohio had 66 in. of rain. The corn and soybean harvest was the most challenging since 1972. There is still a sprinkling of soybean fields and corn fields that need to be harvested. There are many, many fields in northwest Ohio with deep ruts that are going to have to be chiseled out in the spring. Only a small percentage of soybean stubble fields were tilled at all. There is a lot of demand for spring tillage tools. Many of the Great Plains tools are sold out for this spring....More

There are still some corn and soybeans here and there in northwest Ohio. In the last couple weeks there have been three or four days that the combines were able to run and that whittled down the harvest quite a bit. Very little plowing has been done in the last two weeks. I am already making plans about buying a secondary tillage tool that will work in high residue and just skip the chiseling this winter. Does anyone have any suggestions about what might work well?  ...More