The plowing matches were just what you said, plus other things like covering trash, allotted time, back furrow, dead furrow and so on. I have some old home movies of the plowing matches, and I found it interesting to see they could get off the tractor and 'adjust' their back furrow by hand. They'd get off and pack some of that back furrow by hand if it was sticking up too far. I would have thought they couldn't touch the soil with anything but the plow. They could do just about anything they wanted, but if they didn't get done in time, they'd lose points, big time.

We've only gotten about 5 surveys back so far, so it's probably a case of only the unhappy ones are going to fill them out. It's little discouraging, but we have to also realize that there's no way were going to make everybody happy. The squeaky wheel gets the grease after all...