Red Green, Man-Made vs. God-Made.
 Tango Foxtrot, Is That you Lisa?

Let me do the driving. 

RTK guidance is an engineering afterthought. No way to hold the line. Roll, Pitch and Yaw with Implement Skew. There is 740 acres in a typical section.
You must take total control. Take control of the situation since there is no such thing as Auto Steerage on these slope angles.

Very Uncomfortable when you are not in the driver’s seat.

The field was CRP 4 years ago….The land purchase allowed the land to go back into production and came out of CRP in a No-tillage system .

The Tractor engineers did it again with the RX620, and this 620 with a 15 liter Cummins is powerful. Running at 1800 rpm. Surefooted design….an ideal tractor for steep slopes, complete with a Jake Brake to smooth out the downhill turns.

Remember the John Deere 8630, or the 8850 firebug, most burnt to ground in the west. The big time rework program of the 8430 and 8630 that drove producers by the thousands to the Steiger Panthers and Tigers with Caterpillar and Cummins power.

Looks like John Deere figured out the Quad Track, but it took a long time and Case has about 98% of the market plus Row-Trak and Magnum Half-track.

Case has more axles on each track frame in 620 hp, 4 total more axles or 10,000 lbs. more load carrying…which is a big deal in fighting compaction. The Case Quad axles oscillate side to side to improve traction and reduces compaction. Also roading is better to adjust track mid-wheels and belts for the road crown.

The producers, “Gave up Twice” or maybe even three times.

Man created solutions by solving two problems, the scavenger pump on the diesel engine allowed 45 degree operations or 100% slopes, and developing hillside combines that were ground powered with 33 mules.

Double Eyebrows just above the corner of the tractor cab…yes sir, they farmed between two eyebrows on the same slope.

Looks like something Evel Knievel would try to jump.

I jumped a few eyebrows in a Steiger/Yielder combination. It is a thrill you will never forget, Getting airborne with 125,000 lbs. and no wings is a real experience.

It is dangerous work for an outsider.

The shrubs and cedar trees are not natural on the slopes, Grassland for sure.

Deep snow accumulated on north slopes before climate shift of 10,000 years ago.

They are really volcanic ash, soil impregnated snowbanks in the formation of the Palouse Grassland soils.

Cascade Volcano’s provide the wind blown ash all the way to Montana in the White Pine Forrest of Idaho.

That is a Case Quad Track, 620 pulling a 47 foot shank Case 12 inch applicator at the center top of the picture.
Red Green Jordan has 3 red quads and 2 green quads, working on 12,000 acres of the Palouse.

Saving soil with No-tillage, TAPPS Banding and ready for the Deere, 50 foot, 1890 seeder in two pass.
This will not erode due to the root channels of previous crops. No-till works and gets better and better with more surface connected root channels.

A natural means, as close to natural as you can get and keep the soil and build the soil with surface OM. Green Peas in rotation with Winter Wheat.

Comparing Shank Tillage Application with Exactrix Single Disc Application center to left, the Fall Start, The single disc TAPPS application on the right and banded about the same time. Both machines are 12 inch band spacing.

Which one is best? The best seed bed is on the right. The most stored soil moisture will be on the right. The best chance to get a stand of winter wheat is on the right.

If you come a from a different era when soil loss was part of the mining operation you like the center to left.

Your Great Plains Reporter.
GJS

Liquid Rhizobia, http://agproducts.basf.us/products/vault-np-soybean-liquid-inoculant.html 

Ferrilene, http://www.helenachemical.com/products/micronutrients-specialized-nutrition/ferrilene/  

DeKalb, Iron Chlorosis Tolerant Beans. http://www.dekalb.ca/soybeans/varieties  

Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.  www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm

Exactrix Mustang Openers, www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm  

Exactrix SRS. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html  

KMS,  https://www.diamondkgypsum.com/pdf/Diamond%20K%20KMS%20Potassium%20Magnesium%20Sulfate.pdf  

Single Super Phosphate,  http://www.cropnutrition.com/single-superphosphate