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David G

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I had all my fields in RR corn this year, but there is a lot of corn left on the ground from the Derecho. I have waterways and small patches in grass hay, but it was put in a very bad year, and does not look that great. I am planning to do fence row to fence row in real early liberty link beans next year. This will allow me to kill off, work smooth and fall seed the waterways and plant cover crops where the corn was.

I "hope" to get tile in before planting, but not sure we will get it done.

The fields have been no tilled for ten years and I really have seen the soil getting more plant matter. They will be tilled for 2022, then put back into no till. There is one field which was had lower organic material, I am debating plowing in some rye, do not know yet. I see Case guy do that and his soil looks real good.

How many acres per hour could I plan on for 3 bottom plow?
 
I do not know how much you have to plow, but maybe you could have a YT Plow Day?

It always amazed me on how the old-timers (old farmers in the 80's) could sense the slightest loss of power in their tractors just listening to them. Then I think of this ad- and how important it was to have everything in tip top shape from tractor to equipment to get the job done as you were against the clock. The last job I plowed I developed a hole in the injection line for cylinder 5, but it was forecasted to freeze that night so I had to finish. With the heathouser on I was soaked through with diesel. I stood up as much as possible for fresh air, but had a headache for a week. Did get the job done.


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A very rough ball park estimate is:

Width in feet X Speed in MPH divided by 10 = Acres per hour

This is most accurate at 80 percent utilization, about right for plowing.

I would factor in a 10 percent speed loss for wheel slip.
 
Incorporating organic matter and minimizing tillage are always good but do not confuse the soil type they have with what you have. As to plowing it is straight forward math. For example if you have 3 16 inch bottoms then you have 48 inches total working. Multiply that in terms of footage by the actual ground speed where wheel slippage is factored in then multiply that by the length of a mile in feet or 5280. Take the result and divide by the square footage in an acre of land or 43562 sq ft. Then establish a factor for turning on the headland, rest break, lunch and deduct that from the prior figure. It is often considered that in a situation using a trailer, semi-mount, or fully mounted plow that an operator is perhaps 90 percent efficient so you multiply your prior figure by .90 to arrive at actual acres plowed per hour.
 
It might not hurt to tank mix some clethodium with the Liberty. You might be surprised how much of the RR volunteer corn will not be killed with Liberty. Clethodium will kill all corn. If Liberty works or maybe I should say fails on broad leaves next year like it did this year you might want to look into enlist beans that can be sprayed with RR, Liberty and a version of 2-4D. Moldboard plowing will guarantee more broadleaves from seeds that have been lurking down deep for the last ten years of no till.
 
plowing in rye? you can't take an above ground plant made up of 95% water and plow it under to make organic matter! plus you turn the roots of the rye up to air and then you do lose what organic matter that you could of gained!
 
I agree, most RR corn is stacked for
liberty so clethodium will pick up any
corn. Its helps pick up some grasses to as
liberty can have trouble with that. The
enlist E3 beans is a great program, I have
pretty much went away from xtend beans.
 
I think it would be safe to say I've leveled at least 20 miles of drain tile (probably more) with a pan scraper, and followed with a narrow disk and drag harrow, and left all the middles as no till. It's worked as well as working the whole field. There may be some settling over the next year, but that is often the case when working the whole field, too. Good luck!
 
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