Started the year off right.

Well, its a new year and spring isn't that far away.  With a new year comes mountains of paper-work and taxes...we'll stop there.  Anyways, we finished our 2012 Farm Movie and it can be found on our Youtube channel by either clicking: www.youtube.com/morrisfarmmo or find a direct link to the right of this page.

We will be acquiring some more land to farm that is mostly river bottom next year therefore some updated tillage equipment was in order.  We found a terrific deal on a later model John Deere 724 Mulch Finisher at a local dealer and made the deal final.  The idea with this tool is you get a basic disk then a cultivator right behind that.  It's like a vertical tillage tool but just a little more aggressive.  

 

                                 Of course after you get a new tool, you have to play with it!

As we clear former CRP ground, we cut the trees and brush at or below ground level however, taking anything with a shank through this ground would be very hard and would probably damage it.  So, we decided to go with liquid fertilizer instead of Nh3 on this ground.  We found a liquid applicator about 110 miles away at a dealer that was setup on 15" centers for pre-planting application and you can take every-other row off and make it 30" centers which is perfect for side-dressing corn.  We can also use the toolbar for strip-till if we wanted.  It's currently setup for 16 rows but we will most likely make the wings fold twice making it easier and safer on the road and we can side-dress 12 rows or 16. 

Speaking of CRP clearing, we are finishing some of the more grown up land.  Several more hundred acres remain to clear but the worse is nearly done. 

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