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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Do you chisel plow or moldboard plow it?
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I honestly have no clue. When we bought this place in 1995 I was commuting to the Sikorsky Factory in CT every week. The farm had also been let go for five years (bitter divorce) for my weekend were spent trying to get the non-farming stuff up to speed.
The good news is the guy that did the machine hire on the farm before it was let go agreed to help me by share cropping, machine hire and getting the crop to market- he has always done the plowing and combining. He let's me spray, no-till and drive his semi while he combines.
Plowing is an art. I did not mean to imply I did the plowing!
He is one of the great guys I know - he even hosts this every year:
https://lilmargaretsbluegrass.wordpress.com/our-place/
Two years ago we decided to cash crop with James, meaning he does everything and pays me a fee per acre, since my schedule was so hectic.
Here's the gear:
