Moldboard Plowing Rye! Keeping It Old School!
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Published 2024-06-06
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All Comments (21)
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Fantastic! George's videos are kinda like having my Grandpa back, who was a master gardener and raised award-winning waterfowl. He could talk forever and never be boring.
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What you are doing is better for the soil! Every farmer needs to diversify! Cattle, sheep and grain!
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Its pretty evident that pops likes to teach and inform. Always ready to share knowledge. Whats significant is how much he gets done. In my experience farmers usually stand there shootin the bull all day and get nothin done, or you chase one around all day just to hear 2 words on how to do something . It's pretty unique to find a farmer with the passion to teach, and the wisdom to know when to move on and get somthin done.
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WOW.... look at that beautiful black Wisconsin soil!!
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Thanks for sharing all the details George, you are a fabulous teacher to those of us still figuring it out.
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I plowed many years with a John Deere 70 Diesel and a 4 bottom plow mounted on the 800A hitch. It was the best part of farming!
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Beautiful dirt ,should make some great corn . What a view .đź‘Ť
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Great video papa yoir a natural
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This is why a relatively small dairy farmer and family like you all are still in business and prospering, doing things right, for all the right reasons, preserving all or your farm and soils, and not wasting money on things many farmers think they just have to have to keep up with the Jones!!! You all demonstrate how really taking care of your entire farm is the right way to go for the long haul, while taking the best care of your environment and everything around it
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That rye is very nice and thick! Soil looks great. I think that plow is the same we had when I was a kid. .. Next year leave some rye standing and plant corn with your new no-till planter directly into the standing rye. When the corn emerges, run a cultipacker down and back to flatten any stand ups the other way. That straw mulch mat will block weeds until the corn canopies.
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Enjoyed seeing the plowing.
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My dad tied #9 wire 8 to 10 foot long on each coulter shaft trailing back behind plow, even in 3 & 1/2 ft tall sweet clover, it turned over completely black( an old Iowa farmer trick) I’ve never seen any farmer do this except my Dad( a 2nd generation Danish Iowan farmer), too bad farmers don’t hardly plow in Iowa anymore, we always put away plow greased with sticky axle grease, luv your videos- retired in western Iowa.
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Enjoyed your moldboard plowing video. Brings back memories of growing up on a small dairy farm in Iowa. Started out pulling 2-16"s behind a 2 cylinder John Deere. When I got to high school age we got a 65 horse tractor and were able to pull 4-14's. Wow we really thought we were doing something then. Glad you didn't lose the camera ....otherwise might not get to see any more of your great videos!!!
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Great explanation of how and why you prepare your crop ground and the benefits that process bring to you and your family. Great job keeping your headlands even. Having grown up during the 1960s plowing was the only way to go. I do recall, if we didn’t keep our headlands even, it made a real mess when we rolled the headlands and made issues for tillage and planting. As always, thanks for sharing and taking me back to time of tremendous satisfaction.
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Like I said,,George Gierok master class plowing.
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we had one like that in the early 70's , pulled it with an Allis XT190!I'm with you, Dad!!Take it from this old farmer, that's nice plowing for as tall as the Rye is, most of it's under, and it does make good fertilizer! i am a moldboard guy, one of my favorite jobs!
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Great video. One thing I've noticed is that you still seem to use alot of One way ploughs in the US. Here in the UK almost everyone uses reversible ploughs. Even on small farms. Don't know whether that's the case or just the channels I'm watching. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.
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Some really good shots of the plow working. Thanks.
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That rye is rolling over perfectly.
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Old school is pretty much all we do. Works good for us.
