In this field, I did "create a plow pan" by working it too wet. The corn in this field is moderately weedy and showed stress from our dry summer. The video on cultivation when things go right shows an adjacent corn field that was done "right", and has excellent weed control and will far out-yield this field. As far as creating a plow pan, to me it is not a concern as I; 1. avoid working ground too wet 2. widely vary tillage practices 3. use manure, green manure, crop rotation, and deep rooted legumes 4. my rotation uses a small grain/legume which gives my fields a two year break from tillage. I also limit my usage of the disk and plow which appear to me to do the most damage to soil structure/aggregate stability.
Conventional farmer from Ohio, look forward to all your videos, I'm learning a lot, hope to ditch the chemicals someday myself.
There is a lot of help available for transitioning. Good luck
I am a young farmer also from Ohio. Try to get into my own farm, been farming my grandfathers 90 acres for years. Looking to go organic myself.
Highs in the 50s forecast for this week here. Corn is staying in the bags for the next week or two.
Same thing here, but highs mid 60's. Still not quite warm enough though...
Wow, your ground is black! It's so healthy! Cheers From Italy! (I Hope that my english is good!😂)
Perfect 👍🏻🙂. We have relatively high OM due to legumes and a diverse crop rotation with livestock! Thanks for watching 🙂
@@GeigerFarm Also because you make min till. In italy, the farmers plough at 40-50cm 😂😂 thank you!
We own many plows! I just don't like to use them!! ONLY plow if incorporating a green manure :)
How do you contend with the different "plow pans" formed in the soil from plow, disk, and field cultivator? Is it really an issue?
In this field, I did "create a plow pan" by working it too wet. The corn in this field is moderately weedy and showed stress from our dry summer. The video on cultivation when things go right shows an adjacent corn field that was done "right", and has excellent weed control and will far out-yield this field. As far as creating a plow pan, to me it is not a concern as I; 1. avoid working ground too wet 2. widely vary tillage practices 3. use manure, green manure, crop rotation, and deep rooted legumes 4. my rotation uses a small grain/legume which gives my fields a two year break from tillage. I also limit my usage of the disk and plow which appear to me to do the most damage to soil structure/aggregate stability.