[AT] tractor fuel efficiency

[charlie hill]

Hi Ralph,

Here the Corp of Engineers would likely designate those sloughs as 
"federally protected wet lands" and you wouldn't be able to even drive a 
tractor over them even when they were dry.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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> John,,, neither river or canal. We call them "sloughs" here. Small 
> depressions in the land that gather melt water in spring and rain water 
> through the summer. In a very dry year they will disappear and produce a 
> good crop of slough hay. But in a year like this one slough fills up and 
> runs over into the next one so eventually quite a few of normally seeded 
> acres are under water or too wet to pull an implement through without 
> getting stuck. I'm hearing some interesting stories of stuck equipment 
> this spring . Everything from grain and fertilizer trucks to anhydrous 
> applicators (me on that last one).
> We are pretty well unregulated on how close we seed to these sloughs 
> although I think its a little more critical on a creek or river. The only 
> restriction I have is on how close I can seed to the water without 
> spinning out with the tractor and getting stuck.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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> From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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>> Ralph, is that a river or canal you are seeding very close to? Kind of 
>> surprising since around here I can't get wtihin 20 ft---thats using 
>> no-till, against a grass seeded waterway (only carries water in big 
>> rains). And thats becasue I signed papers agreeing to do so for the feds 
>> years ago. Those that didn't have to stay 60ft away.
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>
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