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is everwhere else got the fields all ripped up and plowed,how's come it's dang neart impossible to find a field with corn stalks still up?why can't the farmers wait until spring like they used to?friggin hybrid corn anyways,we've been havin a heck of a time hittin a good track,the other night we went to a spot of about 25 acres,but there was still corn stalks and it was even moonlit.and our young dogs treed within 10 minutes,man i wish we could go back to the ol days.

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nobody remembers how fun it was to hear some good feed track races out in the cut corn?

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Oh yeah man i like those good quick races off standin corn. Around here most people plant corn for silage and leave it standin pretty late and we get lots of good chases around them fields

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Aint no such thing down this way. Everything is planted in pine trees.

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i can rember the corn field races one farm i hunted always had 3 huge corn fields had many good races and started a lot of young dogs in them back in my days know i cant even hunt got parkisons diease just have to think about the hounds and the good years the lord blessed me with to enjoy the quilty time spent with my boys and freinds hunting coon hounds and beagles

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Aint no such thing down this way. Everything is planted in pine trees.

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ahh!pine tree's suck

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I was asking a friend out in Iowa about this the other day. When I was a younger man the farmers left some stalks and stubble through the winter. It made for a good place to strike coons in the bad weather. He said now days it is combined and plowed under almost immediately. I'm not sure why but they do it differently these days.

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a plowed field warms quicker in the spring so they can plant sooner. if its a wet fall then the plowing waits till spring this year the weather was perfect so they plowed early.

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it still don't make any sense to me,cause if it's a dry fall they can work the ground,but usually gotta wait anyhow cause the spring is so wet,so why not just wait,most of the farmers here can do all that n about a week -week and half anywho?

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it still don't make any sense to me,cause if it's a dry fall they can work the ground,but usually gotta wait anyhow cause the spring is so wet,so why not just wait,most of the farmers here can do all that n about a week -week and half anywho?

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Aint no such thing down this way. Everything is planted in pine trees.

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Kinda like a feeder bucket down here

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This breaks the hard pan under the soil that will make the ground hold water. Doing this in the fall also allows it to freeze deeper which ultimately loosens the soil, and allows it to dry quicker, and be cultivated smoother in the spring. Another benefit to it is that tilling the stalks under is somewhat a technique of putting compost into the soil which helps keep the soil from being compacted. There are many benefits from fall tillage, just none concerning coon hunting...

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This breaks the hard pan under the soil that will make the ground hold water. Doing this in the fall also allows it to freeze deeper which ultimately loosens the soil, and allows it to dry quicker, and be cultivated smoother in the spring. Another benefit to it is that tilling the stalks under is somewhat a technique of putting compost into the soil which helps keep the soil from being compacted. There are many benefits from fall tillage, just none concerning coon hunting...

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And alot of farmers are getting so big they have to work as much ground as they can. My buddy works for a big farmer makes real good money but this guy farms 25 thousand acres.

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man that's a lot of ground hope he lets u hunt all the timber he has,lol,probably all leased out to deer hunters,lol

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It's all flat he buys ground and if there's old barnes or trees on fence lines it's gone in know time I think one of his planters is a 36 row my buddy told me there's only 4 in the u.s.

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The old days were all deep plowed in fall. Prior to the 80s for you kids. Then it got to be understood that a "well prepared seed bed" was the same row that had the subsoiler under it from last year. And if you had a way to deposit aseed in it the seed would come up with out a lot of foreplay as good as if you were the sixty minute man. So they did not mess around and till and disc and till some more. The litter on the surface mulched itself more slowly than the orgasm it got by burying it deep. Get my drift? But the makers of the preplant incorporated herbici de folks were fixing to looose their as to the newer types and particularly to the gemetically improve d "Roundup Ready" varieties. So that led to a time in the 2000s when there was alot of bedwetting and bed jumping with the Sustainable folkes. Which , as could be expected , was led by Al Gore and his band of self prclaimed , non-scientist want to bees, about the Realease of Carbon. Remember how carbon monoxide was the suicidal persons dream but yet carbon dioxide got turned into a culpret as well. ( because idiots did not not understand the difference between Mon and Di)? Anyway that caused a shift in the dumber than thow beaureaucrats to concentrate on carbon sequestration. So farmers , being more scientist than scientist don't really give a timkers crap about it because the amount of organics left by chissel plowing still proveds enough protection from erosion on flat ground. And they are politically astute enough , not only just to farm, but to farm the Hell out of whatever Govcernment popular giveaways program comes down the pike this year as well as 5 years from now. So, the moral of the story is , if you want to be an environmentalist , go to College and take Chemistry and Biology. Or stand around with your thumb up your as and just call yourself an envirionmentalist. And no it ain't about coonhunting pekerwoods.

If you are interested, you can do a search for KREBS CYCLE or CITRIC ACID CYCLE, and understand it. OR you can just bith an mone about what farmers do like Al Gore's folks. Take your choice.

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What?

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