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Making a plowed field flat
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Posted by Mike on March 23, 1999 at 04:50:59:
I bought a 120 acre farm last fall. I've worked
for the Government for 20 years and really don't
have a background in farming. However, my father
was born and raised on a farm. He left home when
he was about 18 and never returned to farming. His
father passed away about 35 years ago and his farm
although still owned by the family has been in moth
balls since. Dad retired last year and asked me if
I was interested in farming. I guess he has always
missed it. I told him that I could only do it part
time. So over the winter I have been studying books
and we have been accumulating various pieces of
equipment needed to do corn, small grains, and hay.
Dad left farming a while ago and can still remember
when they used horses before they advanced to tractors.
Techniques and methods have changed since then.
Can someone out there tell us the best way to open
a field? We have a case 930 with a 4 bottom plow
and start plowing a field by going down the middle
turning around and throwing the dirt toward the
side just plowed. Then the following rounds we
have one tire of the tractor in the furrow and
continue making rounds pushing the ground toward
the middle. Although covered, this leaves a space
in the middle that isn't plowed. Does this matter?
After the field dries a few days, we use a disk to
cut it up. We did a field last fall using this method.
We haven't been over it with a hare yet and it has
a lot of spots that are not level. Will the hare
take them out? Dad says that we may have to drag
a log behind the hare or disk to get it flat. I've
never seen any other farmers dragging a log around.
Any help would be appreciated.
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