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Self-Sufficiency Acreage Requirement? (getting fuel)
Bob Peterson wrote: Curious - have you actually tried to plant and harvest hundreds of acres using only horses for power, or is this some kind of academic exercise? The reason I ask is that people who actually have done so, and books I have read on pre-tractor farming indicate this is a wildly optimistic scenario. If you skip turning the soil with a plow you are removing about 1/3 to 1/2 the work of prepairing the soil for farming. The amount of land that can be cultivated by horse drawn equipment depends on the type of crops and the strategy that is used. In growing mixed crops such as wheat (winter wheat) rape seed, some varieties of oats and barley, they are planted in the fall. Using the no-till method of framing, (where the land is not plowed but is harrowed) it is reasonable to expect to prepare and seed 100 acres in the months of September and October. These crops will then be harvested in July. Then using the no-till method in the spring to plant the late maturing crops like potatoes, corn, beans, peas, turnips, onions, etc., these crops will be harvested in august or early september so it is reasonable to expect to put an additional 100 acres into production. There fore 180 to 200 acres is the UPPER LIMIT of cultivation with horses. The Independent |
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