[AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Highly erodible in your neck of the woods? Please, they cut drainage ditches 
down your way!  :)

I can't figure out what is going on around here. We are getting farmers 
moving into the area grabbing up all the CRP acreage that was pulled out 
this fall after 20+ years of being in grass. One farm is leased to a guy 
running a new no-till drill on about half of it. The rest of it he is 
plowing. I haven't heard of anyone other than tobacco farmers plowing around 
here for almost 20 years. Makes me wonder if the USDA has an incentive 
program to no-till like they did about 10 years ago. The only catch was you 
had to be tilling the land before you got paid to no-till it.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:56 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

It's rare to see a moldboard plow anywhere around here now days.
Everyone is using big tractors with heavy discs, rippers and no til or
conservation til rigs.
I did see a fine looking 4 bottom Allis Chalmers plow sitting beside the
road for sale
on Wed.  I sure wish I had a D-19 or a 185 or 190 to pull it.  I'd love to
have it.
Problem is I can't remember exactly where I saw it now.  I'd have to
backtrack 100 miles to find it.

Around here the government kind of rides herd on how you till what they
classify as "highly erodible lands" and
it turns out that what little bit of hilly land we have around here usually
turns out to be highly erodible so you
have to deal with it no-til or put it on terraces or in pasture.

Charlie