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NW Washington | Gee, Dave you sound like a professor of "Rural Sociology". Yes, they really do exist at a land grant colleges and they can put farmers into different categories. The early innovators to the never change folks and all those in between. Valuable stuff.
http://ruralsociology.org/
I have watched the irrigated growers in Idaho, Washington and Oregon plow bare dirt, deep, for years. Big tractor, little plow. Then they come back with rollers and discs to pack it back down. But, hey, its their farm, their tractor and their diesel and if it works for them so be it. I know that with surface irrigation the condition of the soil is critical if you want the water to make it to the other end of the furrow.
Growing spuds, sugar beets and growing crops on beds is another reason doing a lot of tillage.
Is the plow behind the Quad a Kuhn? That is first time I have seen someone using fixed joints on a plow in the US. I'll bet that Quad could handle one of those big semi-mounted roll-over plows they make in Europe that go up to 10 bottoms or more. | |
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Plowing for NV Dave
