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Posted by CNKS on January 28, 2005 at 14:12:09 from (204.249.178.138):
In Reply to: Cultivation posted by GWT on January 28, 2005 at 10:38:57:
All you need is a seedbed so that the seed has good soil-seed contact. Plowing is little more than a tradition in most places. It does have it's place in certain conditions. No one plows in SW Kansas any more. A disk only is fine unless you have large weeds and/or compacted soil that a disk won't penetrate, in that case it can be chiseled. To get a good seedbed with a disk or trashy conditions, it has to penetrate, otherwise you will make multiple passes, and compact the soil further. That said, a plow won't hurt anything on a small area. The key is to get a noncompacted seedbed absent of large clods that will prevent good seed-soil contact. A plow is likely to cause clods unless you have perfect soil conditions when you plow (if Allan(NE) is reading this he knows how to do that, I don't) these need to be broken up with a disk soon after plowing or they are apt to become hard and difficult to break up. Unless you are willing to wait until it rains.
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