This sweep plow has been used i the great American Desert --Western Kansas for years since the 1950's --- nothing new except the location --- Nobel sweep plows---
The reason you loose your cover is lack of food for the biology in the summer fallow. 4 or more species of a biological stimulant will hold more water and maintain cover on the ground. Shalom!.
(no-till) id love to try this farmland up with a permaculture farmer who could make this system fly and bring production up 5 fold. yikes... I'd tillage radish my way into that wheat. so cover crop heavy tillage radish .. (if in warm area graze that radish) if in midwest winter kill. the radish stores your water. also, I wonder if there's a permanent deep-rooting grassland seed mix then do a "pasture crop system" for the wheat. seems like this whole system is poor farming practices. I don't think "wheat" is the right crop for this type of land, to begin with. it's such low productivity out of the land when that same land before those farmers were farming it. was probably super protective in its native state. which means that we got a VERY poor farming system we are trying to "force" wheat out of.
This sweep plow has been used i the great American Desert --Western Kansas for years since the 1950's --- nothing new except the location --- Nobel sweep plows---
I farm in the horse heaven, we just use a chisel plow and follow it with rod weeders for our summer fallow
How does the undercutter survive use in rocky soil?
I see very little difference between this undercutter and a modern flex king sweep plow.
They need a Crossslot from New Zealand.
The reason you loose your cover is lack of food for the biology in the summer fallow.
4 or more species of a biological stimulant will hold more water and maintain cover on the ground.
Shalom!.
(no-till) id love to try this farmland up with a permaculture farmer who could make this system fly and bring production up 5 fold. yikes... I'd tillage radish my way into that wheat. so cover crop heavy tillage radish .. (if in warm area graze that radish) if in midwest winter kill. the radish stores your water. also, I wonder if there's a permanent deep-rooting grassland seed mix then do a "pasture crop system" for the wheat. seems like this whole system is poor farming practices. I don't think "wheat" is the right crop for this type of land, to begin with. it's such low productivity out of the land when that same land before those farmers were farming it. was probably super protective in its native state. which means that we got a VERY poor farming system we are trying to "force" wheat out of.