I bought it a couple of days ago at a farm retirement auction and drove west 100 miles to Rogers, MN to pick it up today.
It appears to be in really good shape and won't (hopefully) take much work to get it ready for next spring. Conservation means that it's able to do "no-till planting" of corn, beans and similarly sized seeds. We aren't no-till; the main way to get rid of weeds in an organic rotation is to till the soil. However I'd like to start minimizing the amount of tillage for a couple of reasons. It has benefits to soil health, and secondly, I'm hoping to reduce the number of times that I have to spend tilling the soil prior to planting in the spring. There's a small window to plant. Any extra rain means I can't till until the soil dries out which can cause a delay in planting. Late planting leads to lower (or no) yield.
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Lastly, I put some paint on the 300 gallon diesel fuel tank. So many things here are beat up and falling apart it makes me feel good to push back against all the decay.
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