Agricenter International sits on 1,000 acres of farmland and 600 of those acres are used in field trials and crop production.  A precision tractor, guided by GPS and on loan from our tenant, Case New Holland, was used to break up last year's field.  A disk, pulled on the back of the tractor, turned the dead stalks into the ground. It is a very bumpy ride on the tractor during this process.  The tractor is self-guided and only needs assistance in turning at the end of the fields. After the field was disked, a do-all, again pulled on the back of the tractor, was used to break up the lumps.  Next, a hipper, also sometimes called a bedder, was then used to make very straight beds of soil.  After hipping was complete it rained so we had to wait a week before we could plant. By mid-April we got the planter out and filled it up with corn for one of the fields.