hillbilly0310
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Hey folks, I'd sincerely appreciate you reading my post and affording me any information and input that you have. There's a vast amount of knowledge amongst the people of this board, and given the weather patterns (i.e., RAIN) and time-sensitive criteria of getting seed into the ground, I am desperately hoping to tap into the knowledge base around here. Again, I appreciate any help you can afford me.
I have a Kubota L4701 with 900 hours on it. We bought it new, and though I cannot complain too much as it has been a fine little tractor, it quickly became too small as we continued to clear, maintain and cultivate our land. Alas, it is what we have for the time being.
The terrain varies, but the maintained open areas consist of approximately 50% being steep to semi-steep hills ( by east Mississippi standards), and the rest being gentle rolling hills and flat bottomland. All total we have about 100 acres of maintained land, and we'd like to begin planting hobby farm crops (e.g., sweet corn, peas, beans, and maybe some sunflowers for the doves) on approximately 40 to 50 acres of the land that is most feasible for it.
As far as attachments that pertain to tillage and seeding go, I've the following: Lowrey 6 ft. disk, a 1 bottom plow, single shank subsoiler, Taylor 500 spreader, Woods 72" tiller, a 6 ft. cultipacker, six ft. 4 way landscape rake (on top of many other uses, oftentimes I'll use it as a sort of harrow to bust up clods or scratch the surface of newly tilled dirt that has been rained on) a 110 gallon boomless herbicide spray rig, and a 6 ft. bush hog.
I plant lots of grass for erosion control (mainly millet and rye grass), along with approximately 10 acres of food plots that consist of brassicas, oats, wheat, rye, peas, chufa, and more. I also plant approximately 2 acres of wildflowers on a biannual basis.
However, because we desire to plant larger plots of vegetables, we very much desire a planter that can primarily put peas, corn, and sunflowers into the ground (and in a hurry), but also have the secondary ability to use the same planter to drill grass seeds into the ground.
Does any such attachment exist? One where a 47 hp tractor can drill (preferably with minimal-to-no tilling beforehand) grasses as well as larger vegetable seeds like corn and peas?
We've put thousand and thousands of dollars into minimize and/or restoring topsoil loss on our sloping areas that resulted from poor logging practices as well as insufficient erosion mitigation measures from past land clearing, but the problem that we often run into (especially on the slopes areas) is in the multi-step process of planting grass and the process being interrupted by heavy rain. For example, let's say that I spray, then mow, then till and cultipack, but then rain interrupts the process of actual seeding and the final step of rolling in the seed, and then I have to start over at the tilling step: We lose lots of time, fuel, work hours (money) and also, sometimes, we lose topsoil too.
It seems to me like an all-purpose no till drill would've already paid for itself in lost production and topsoil? But does such a drill exist to where you can also utilize it for corn and beans, etc.?
I apologize for the question if it be a dumb one, but I've read and read until I'm blue in the face and most of what I've read pertains only to large agricultural settings, but the question still remains: Can I get a single attachment for the purposes explained above, or am I destined for needing 2 attachments; with 1 being for grass seeds (again, preferably no till) and 1 being for putting corn and beans in the ground?
I thank you again for reading and giving me and advice and input that you have.
Well Wishes to You and Yours,
HB
I have a Kubota L4701 with 900 hours on it. We bought it new, and though I cannot complain too much as it has been a fine little tractor, it quickly became too small as we continued to clear, maintain and cultivate our land. Alas, it is what we have for the time being.
The terrain varies, but the maintained open areas consist of approximately 50% being steep to semi-steep hills ( by east Mississippi standards), and the rest being gentle rolling hills and flat bottomland. All total we have about 100 acres of maintained land, and we'd like to begin planting hobby farm crops (e.g., sweet corn, peas, beans, and maybe some sunflowers for the doves) on approximately 40 to 50 acres of the land that is most feasible for it.
As far as attachments that pertain to tillage and seeding go, I've the following: Lowrey 6 ft. disk, a 1 bottom plow, single shank subsoiler, Taylor 500 spreader, Woods 72" tiller, a 6 ft. cultipacker, six ft. 4 way landscape rake (on top of many other uses, oftentimes I'll use it as a sort of harrow to bust up clods or scratch the surface of newly tilled dirt that has been rained on) a 110 gallon boomless herbicide spray rig, and a 6 ft. bush hog.
I plant lots of grass for erosion control (mainly millet and rye grass), along with approximately 10 acres of food plots that consist of brassicas, oats, wheat, rye, peas, chufa, and more. I also plant approximately 2 acres of wildflowers on a biannual basis.
However, because we desire to plant larger plots of vegetables, we very much desire a planter that can primarily put peas, corn, and sunflowers into the ground (and in a hurry), but also have the secondary ability to use the same planter to drill grass seeds into the ground.
Does any such attachment exist? One where a 47 hp tractor can drill (preferably with minimal-to-no tilling beforehand) grasses as well as larger vegetable seeds like corn and peas?
We've put thousand and thousands of dollars into minimize and/or restoring topsoil loss on our sloping areas that resulted from poor logging practices as well as insufficient erosion mitigation measures from past land clearing, but the problem that we often run into (especially on the slopes areas) is in the multi-step process of planting grass and the process being interrupted by heavy rain. For example, let's say that I spray, then mow, then till and cultipack, but then rain interrupts the process of actual seeding and the final step of rolling in the seed, and then I have to start over at the tilling step: We lose lots of time, fuel, work hours (money) and also, sometimes, we lose topsoil too.
It seems to me like an all-purpose no till drill would've already paid for itself in lost production and topsoil? But does such a drill exist to where you can also utilize it for corn and beans, etc.?
I apologize for the question if it be a dumb one, but I've read and read until I'm blue in the face and most of what I've read pertains only to large agricultural settings, but the question still remains: Can I get a single attachment for the purposes explained above, or am I destined for needing 2 attachments; with 1 being for grass seeds (again, preferably no till) and 1 being for putting corn and beans in the ground?
I thank you again for reading and giving me and advice and input that you have.
Well Wishes to You and Yours,
HB
