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Nice Tim!

It is nice to see all of the hard work that you and Tillers put into this project.

What was the cattle’s response to the new yokes? they seemed more settled, just wondering if there was anything that you saw off camera also.

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We saw a herd of Pinzgauers at a fair this summer, our first thought was “wouldn’t a pair of these steers make a nice team.” After watching this I looked up Pinzgauer breeders and found out a friend of mine manages a small herd. If only there were room for a couple of calves in my life 🙂

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Nothing makes a person wealthy like having their own piece of land to steward. Congratulations!

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I am not sure if Jersey/Holstien is something that you are interested in but I can look and see what is in the bull pen before the shipper comes for some culls and calves.

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@Kevin Cunningham 40338 wrote:

And just for the record, even though I am not in a plow match I still think it is important to have full coverage of the trash on the surface, you will fight it all season if you don’t get it under the first time.

I think that leaving some trash is fine in certain situations depending on the type of trash and the crop that I am seeding/planting next. Having trash on the surface aids in water retention and causes trash to break down quicker with aerobic bacteria, these can be good things and I see “leaving trash uncovered” as another tool in the toolbox. Trash like winter killed oats and peas I don’t even plow, but corn stubble and winter rye I like to tuck right under.

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Stephen has worked with quite a few DAPNet folks to write his book, and he will be presenting at our Draft Animal-Power Field Days this coming September 28 and 29.

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Gordon,

Good find! From back when the USDA gave farmers information that they could use 🙂

I have no personal experience with the chain, but I have heard that it works rather well for plowing down tall crops like grass, grain or weeds. I have a suspicion that it may help some in corn ground, but that without the length of trash needed for the chain to be most effective it still may not cover the trash as well as some may like. Just a guess though, I would love to hear from someone who has tried using a chain in old corn ground.

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There are tough parts about every seasonal change, but when inhaling changes from nose hairs freezing together to the smell of sap boiling, to the smell of thawed out soil, it makes the hardships a little more tolerable 🙂

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Tim,

I didn’t mean to imply that the power source might make a difference, rather that I am open to the idea that a single bottom horse drawn plow may have a higher level of adjustment than a multi-bottom tractor plow. The shape has everything to do with it, but with more adjustment, you may be able to tweak a KV a little more in corn ground than we were able to with a 3 bottom.

I also didn’t mean to imply that covering trash should be everybody’s goal, in the case of our 3 bottom KV with the tractor we were trying to cover trash so we were not happy with the results. We were not in a plowing contest we were simply trying to cover the corn stalks so that they were less of a problem cultivating tender crops. If it were a small grain stubble it wouldn’t be such a problem, but those corn stalks get clogged in the tines and will drag, pulling small vegetable plants out of the ground in a blink of an eye.

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The red winged black birds arrived on March 1st, a little early, but maybe a sign. I am looking forward next to when the barn swallows return for nesting season.

[dominiquer60]

Great video Ed!

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This trailer has been sold.

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The long KV moldboard will turn a nice sod furrow brown side up, but without the root structure of sod, old corn soil will crumble before it reaches the end of the moldboard and does not to a good job covering the trash. If covering the trash is your goal you may not be entirely happy with it. My experience is with a 3 bottom tractor plow, I have seen the Pioneer foot lift with KV demonstrated, it is slick. Perhaps the pioneer plow is more adjustable that the tractor and can do a better job with corn??

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check this site out http://www.bioplastics.us/

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KV bottoms are wonderful for plowing sod, but are not the best for old corn ground. Short answer, but that is what I have experienced in the past.

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