I kjnow, just the thought of a moldboard plow irritates some of you.  Well, you are entitled to your own wrong opinion.  For us it is just another tools to use to try and keep the family fed.

These are plowing under seed corn residue.  The corn was picked about Labor Day and disked.  The brown is volunteer corn the green is chickweed. This field has old building sites, old hog lots, low ground that was flooded from a levee break this year where sand and sediment washed in, Johnsongrass, incredible winter annuals, and most importantly Dad thought a "good plowing" would improve it.

The 160 is split in half, dad owns one side and someone else owns the other.  For the last several years it has been farmed identically.  Whatever was done to the north side was done to the south side  This year the north side was 5.5 bushels over variety average, the south side was 4.4 bushels under.  In payment bushels that is a 21 bushel difference.

THAT is why we are plowing.

We're doing other things as well, but we find on our irrigated sand a good stirring every few years is beneficial.

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