Critter
Life Member
Although I don't post much in this forum, I do try and follow what some of you more experienced "growers" are trying to explain to those of us without green thumbs.
With a-lot of luck, and some persistence, I've managed to find my own little chunk of land this past year and am in need of deciding what to do with the tillable portion of it. I've got around 10-15 acres of cropground to play around with, all which will either be planted in food plots or bedding area.(switchgrass) Here's my questions.
1) I own a MF 50 which I think is around a 35 HP tractor. What implements/attachments would best suit me for that size of a tractor. I was looking for a tiller, but would a small disk and a harrow work just as well? How big of a disk can a 35 HP tractor pull?
2) I talked to the local FSA office about getting some of the ground in CRP. They weren't really all that receptable when I told them I wanted to put it in Switchgrass, and to be honest it sounds like more of a pain in the butt than anything else. Am I better off just leaving it out, and doing whatever I want with it? I doubt the income from it would amount to all that much anyway.
3) Right now the ground is in corn stubble (chopped last year for silage). Am I better off waiting until the fall to plant the clover plots, or is it something I should try and get in this spring. I hate to have the ground just sitting there doing nothing. I know I have to get some soil samples and send them in, do I need to wait until spring, or can I dig into the frost and send it in now?
Thanks in advance for the answers, I'm sure I'll have plenty of bonehead questions in the future for you guys.
CRITR
With a-lot of luck, and some persistence, I've managed to find my own little chunk of land this past year and am in need of deciding what to do with the tillable portion of it. I've got around 10-15 acres of cropground to play around with, all which will either be planted in food plots or bedding area.(switchgrass) Here's my questions.
1) I own a MF 50 which I think is around a 35 HP tractor. What implements/attachments would best suit me for that size of a tractor. I was looking for a tiller, but would a small disk and a harrow work just as well? How big of a disk can a 35 HP tractor pull?
2) I talked to the local FSA office about getting some of the ground in CRP. They weren't really all that receptable when I told them I wanted to put it in Switchgrass, and to be honest it sounds like more of a pain in the butt than anything else. Am I better off just leaving it out, and doing whatever I want with it? I doubt the income from it would amount to all that much anyway.
3) Right now the ground is in corn stubble (chopped last year for silage). Am I better off waiting until the fall to plant the clover plots, or is it something I should try and get in this spring. I hate to have the ground just sitting there doing nothing. I know I have to get some soil samples and send them in, do I need to wait until spring, or can I dig into the frost and send it in now?
Thanks in advance for the answers, I'm sure I'll have plenty of bonehead questions in the future for you guys.
CRITR