Can pasture be prepped for corn planting this late

[thcri]

Most of the farmers haven't even started planting corn around here. However, I don't know why you could not plow it and then disc it over a few times to loosen the soil. Then plant with a shorter term sweet corn. You should be fine. I would spray the existing vegetation and wait for it to die before you do anything. Just turn it over with the plow.

murph

 

[DDT]

Your on the right track, It is not too late at all. I am not far from you and we have had many morning frost in April. My 1st planting my need redone but the 2ed planting looks good so far. I do have a one row culivator KK brand I do not use any more if your interested.
DO NOT cut your disc down, find a smaller one and sell me yours /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Think my L5030 will handle it.

 

[rbg60]

Up here in Illinois we had 27 last night.It was cold last week also.I heard some of the early birds now have to plant over.Many farmers have not planted yet do to the low ground temperature.I talked to a professional applicator today about spraying round up.He told me to wait until the temps. were higher like in the seventies during the day.The round up would work much better when the plants were actively growing.I was told I could disk the ground in four to six hours after spraying.Round up is a contact killer and the plants obsorb it very quickly.It has no residual so he said I could plant the next day!
Good luck what ever you do Rex!!!

 

[Theowegian]

Well, thanks for all the input.

I plowed today. Man, that is FUN!

Then I dragged the disc thru it to level it off. It looks pretty good now. I was able to plow 5-7" consistently with a 2-14" JD, 3 pt mouldboard plow.
Yeah, it took me a while to get it set up, but now it works good. I tried the trick of driving the tractor on top of a railroad tie and setting the plow up that way. That got me started for the side to side, but for the front to back adjustment, I had to keep shortening the toplink until it stopped digging to china. Of course, the plow worked great about the time I was finished.

Thanks to everyone for the tips.

dwight

 

[PineRidge]

Dwight once you get the top link set for your plow use this trick. Measure the length of the top link and write that figure down on the plow with a magic marker. Put the length somewhere that's likely to last not on the moldboards.

The next time you need the plow you can reset the top link just as before without all the trial and error.

If you had to move the length of the side link you can use the same trick there also.

My Dearborn Plow uses a cam so side tilt stays the same without the need for tweaking with the exception of the top link.