Nov 29, 2009, 4:23pm, blizzard wrote:Stunning pics there! Here in Minnesota we are advised to limit tillage on slopes above 8%. That would mean no plowing or ripping for sure for you. Do you grow any corn and soys or just the wheat? The cool wet cloudy weather there in Oregon dont allow it much I would guess.
Take a good look at this picture....does it look cool wet or cloudy??
You have us confused with the west side of the Cascades, the dope
smokin, tree huggin', liberal votin' side of Oregon where it does
rain quite a bit....but not as much as you have been led to believe.
And here around The Dalles, in the rain shadow of the Cascade
range, we are lucky to get 12 - 15 inches of precip in a year. So,
no, we don't raise any corn right around here. They do raise quite
a bit east of here under irrigation. The light precip allowed us to
do tillage on some pretty steep stuff....a 1470/1670 series combine
will level to 48% and I have used all of it on a few occasions:
The way our rainfall pattern is, we are pretty much stuck (dry land
anyway) with a wheat/fallow rotation. We got away with murder
for years doing tillage, but even with the light rainfall, it took it's
toll on the soil. So...........the whole county ( as far as small grain
production goes) has switched to no till: