Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Relay Tillage at the Munroe Field



The Munroe field is home to this season's garlic crop as well as our early cauliflower and broccoli.

Due to our, cold damp spring, we have been a bit behind the eight ball here at Boistfort Valley Farm. In an attempt to catch up and save time we followed through on a diabolical plan to prep our corn ground in record time.

You can see in the above photo, that we are dealing with a cover crop that almost reaches the hood of the tractor.



As I mowed with a seven foot mulcher, Aaron followed behind with the plows. Together we went from shoulder high grass to plowed ground at a rate of 3.5 mph. This felt like flying after spending three days on the transplant tractor moving at a mind numbing 0.5 mph., and it sure did shine up those plows.

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