Gauteng Smallholder September 2015 | Page 29

IN THE FIELD Ploughing is easier (and quicker...) if it’s reversible I f yours is a fixed two or three-share plough there is only one way to work your ground, and that is to start on the right hand side of the field so that your first pass of the plough throws its soil “out” of the field, and each subsequent pass is to the left, throwing soil into the furrows of the previous pass. To illustrate, if you intend ploughing your field in a north-south axis, you would start in the most northwesterl 䁍