Lettuce Bed

I went to Chesterfield, IL today. There is lots of field work being done. Not as much planting as I would have guessed, although all the corn was planted on the farm I worked on.

I have to do a rant today because I have seen too much ground worked down like a lettuce bed. It is easy to do with modern soil finishers. It is also very unnecessary and in my opinion a detriment. Many over our soils have less than 20% clay in the surface. When those soils are worked down, the next rain will have them all puddled over. When your seedbed is getting too fine, lift up the rolling baskets. The only reason to make it look like that is if you are still using a runner planter. I could go on, but you get the idea.