Tilling At A Higher Speed

By: Industry Voice by Norwood Sales

Jerry Overton, farms just north of Minot, ND and is close to the Canadian bounder.

“This far north, I’m a wheat, canola and flax guy. I love flax. Lots of soybeans up here too but I don’t raise any. Flax is my choice. I make 30+ bushel flax. Market hasn’t flattened out …its sill hanging 10 bucks. But then I should know what I’m doing with flax…I’ve been at it for 59 years!

Very little fall tillage up here. We just run the anhydrous knives with very little soil movement. We’re not ripping and moving much soil…this way there’s virtually zero wind erosion from these strong winter winds. We go about 2 ½ -3 inches deep with the anhydrous; Then Spring time and we run the KWIK-TILL 10 mph and we’re ready to rumble. I had a 300-acre field of flax. Didn’t touch the ground until the spring when we spread UREA. Then we worked it really light with my KWIK-TILL disc; seeded it to wheat and had just wonderful results.