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09/28/05, 05:59 PM
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How are you doing your NO-Till planting?
What are your methods for no till farming?
What implements do you use for this, and what are you growing?
How big of an area are you planting with the no till method?
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09/28/05, 07:25 PM
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I've had varying results
Tried it for two years running growing barley - did it as per the book, sprayed the paddocks off beforehand, drilled seed with fertiliser, and both year had very poor results. We have gone back to conventional tilling this year for cereals.
However, we have used it for grassing paddocks, sowing ryegrass and clover mixes, and had excellent results.
After talking to a few others it seems to be that cereal crops need a softer seed bed to establish, and that if the seed is constricted the strike-rate is poor, but grasses can take this
We used specialised contractors to prespray and drill the seed, but conventionally tilling we use our own tractor and plough (an old IH 354 and 3-furrow plough) but still used the contractor to drill the seed and fertiliser, while we applied side-dressings of urea in both cases with our own tractor and fertiliser spreader
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09/28/05, 08:43 PM
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No till farmiong is different from no till planting. I am a no-till planter--much smaller areas. We do several areas that are about 250-300 square feet each. We use layers and layers of mulch and compost. Do a search on here for lasagna gardening for small household usage sized plots.
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09/28/05, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BCR
No till farmiong is different from no till planting. I am a no-till planter--much smaller areas. We do several areas that are about 250-300 square feet each. We use layers and layers of mulch and compost. Do a search on here for lasagna gardening for small household usage sized plots.
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I know about Lasagne gardening. I just don't know much about all that is involved to plant up a field and maintain it with no till farming. 
prespraying? drilling? strike rate? ... 
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09/29/05, 02:56 AM
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3rd year
We use no till, drip irrigation and are not there for three of four weeks sometimes. 50 x 150, This year was a nice garden and we got lots of peas, potatoes, wildflowers, onions, garlic, lettuce, etc.
Our no till garden this August, 2005
We are very happy and greatful.
Alex
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09/29/05, 05:55 AM
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We use no till,
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Alex,
Do you use no-till on your cultivated grain or hayfields that are planted up since you started? What do you do?
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09/29/05, 07:04 AM
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Moon Wolf,
What crops are you wanting to plant? My family does about 1200 acres of no-till corn and soybeans a year (that is across several farms and a couple uncles). There is a lot of information out there on no-till farming, but it is crop specific. County Extension Agent has a bunch on info too.
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09/29/05, 09:23 AM
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we use a large heavy seed drill to reseed hay fields that are not rutted up or rough ,while not a no till drill does a decent job at sowing clover/timothy . we are presently choppping the feilds we will sow this spring and will spread manure soon on some . neighbours have a multi thousand dollar air seeder that will plant any thing ,any where and with over 4000 acres to crop this is what they need! however small acreage of level field can be seeded with a broadcast spreader in the early sping when the ground is still frozen . fellow i spread for had done this then ,topped off by me with 5000 gallons of liquid gold , was the best hay crop in the neighbour hood!
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09/29/05, 11:40 PM
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No, we just broke 55 acres 3 years ago, 2 crops, barley and then oats and hay this year. We had to work this second year, root removal and leveling.
And we won't do anymore crop on this 55 acres. It will stay in hay for awhile, years if the alfalfa holds up as good as they say -- paid 15% more for a better variety.
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09/30/05, 08:08 AM
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we just started our no till garden, working fairly well we just need a bigger mulch base....
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