Larro Darro
Super Member
I wouldn't plow the steepest parts unless you had too. Keep it in grass.
My old hayfield has a deep hollow in it. When we bought the land in 1978 it had just been cleared and planted in coastal. Before the grass could get a foothold, a gully started about halfway up the slope. Over the years it grew, going all the way up to the top, to level ground. We tried to control it by putting all sorts of debri in it, including rolls of old hay. We slowed it down, but didn't fix the problem until we scalped the land across the slope to plant pine trees.
If you have to plow, a buffer of intact grass between the plowed sections would help with the erosion.
My old hayfield has a deep hollow in it. When we bought the land in 1978 it had just been cleared and planted in coastal. Before the grass could get a foothold, a gully started about halfway up the slope. Over the years it grew, going all the way up to the top, to level ground. We tried to control it by putting all sorts of debri in it, including rolls of old hay. We slowed it down, but didn't fix the problem until we scalped the land across the slope to plant pine trees.
If you have to plow, a buffer of intact grass between the plowed sections would help with the erosion.