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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · March 9, 2023 · P5

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Jerry Crownover have proven to be essential to acres of rich, relatively flat, the field and take over the
the conservation of both soil creek-bottom soil, and Dad plowing from my father, so he
and fuel, and have reduced always planted several acres could do the afternoon chores.
turn-plowing into an anti- of corn and oats each year. I was probably around ten,
quated practice. Sixty years Both of those crops began and plowing was one of the
ago though, turning over the with plowing up last year’s few tractor-driving jobs that
top six to eight inches of top- stalks and residue, with a Dad permitted me to do, with-
soil was the first step in pro- two-bottom, moldboard plow, out supervision. Even though
ducing a successful crop, and pulled behind an 8N Ford he often pointed out that he
my absolute favorite activity tractor. could train a monkey to plow,
as a young boy. Early each spring, I I felt like a grown man, out
We were mostly livestock couldn’t wait to get home on that open-station tractor,
farmers in the hilly and rocky from school, bundle up with with nary a soul in sight. I
terrain of the Ozarks, but warm clothes, cap, and jer- plowed until dark, every af-
our farm contained about 80 sey gloves, so I could run to continued on page 12

As I was surfing through
the TV channels recently, the
title of a program immediate-
ly grabbed my attention: The
British Ploughing Champi-
onship. Besides the fact that
the word plowing had been
misspelled (When will the
Brits learn how to spell?), I
thought the show might have
some entertainment value
for an old plowboy.
Very few American farm-
ers use a moldboard, turn-
ing plow anymore. Minimum
tillage and no-till equipment

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