How to get a pasture to bare dirt?

   / How to get a pasture to bare dirt? #1  

whitravis

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I have an acre of field grass. Its also lumpy and bumpy. I want to get rid of the grass and smooth the field with a box scraper. Kill the grass, run a disc over the field, then the scraper box, or??

Or kill the grass then turn it under with a two bottom plow?

33HP
 
   / How to get a pasture to bare dirt? #2  
A lot of farmers would just turn it with a one bottom plow. Let it sit for the grass to die a bit and then disc it. I have reservations that 33hp will handle a two bottom plow.
 
   / How to get a pasture to bare dirt? #9  
First step is to spray it with glyphosate or something similar and kill what's green. For only an acre, I get better results with a tiller and then a drag rather than trying to disc it. Plowing it just makes it much rougher and you need even more aggressive equipment to get it smoothed back out.

YMMV
 
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   / How to get a pasture to bare dirt? #10  
An acre, I would just mow it short and run a tiller over it a few times. I've done that on my place with good results. Some around me don't have a tiller and just use a disc. That takes a lot longer, especially in the dry. Discs don't cut very well through roots.
 

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