If you can't come up with a combine I've seen both wheat and oats cut at the dough stage, dried then baled for hay. But then my education was dairy science/husbandry and my interest in crops was that's what cows eat. I grew up on a farm with some marginal crop land due to hills and poor cropping practices that chewed up top soil so my focus was trying to get the marginal land on the home farm in forage production to feed cattle in minimal tillage situations, this would cut back on our soil loss and limit the need for bigger tractors and equipment to be competitive in raising feed grains.
Back to you original question yes you can plow dry soil, in a sandy soil it will be harder but not bad, throw a clay or heavy roots in the equation and you'll be testing you equipment's mettle. I remember fitting for wheat in August in central Michigan pulling 3-14s behind a super M. It was pulling hard in second and running hotter than I liked to see it and I chewed up a set of plow points pretty darn quick. Ended up putting new points on the plow and changing the oil in the tractor to 40 weight, got the temperature down to were I liked it but was sure using up plow parts quicker than I wanted to. I was putting wheat back on after wheat trying to get the field smooth enough to put into hay.
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