Plowing in January? You must be in a mild climate.
So, my experiences won't match where you are....
In general, you want to do heavy tillage (plow, disk-plow, chisel plow, ripper, etc.).
Let a rain or winter mellow the ground a bit.
Follow with a disk (finishing disk, disk-harrow, light disk....) or field cultivator to level the ground.
Then after another light rain, harrow the ground to kill the spring weed flush and leave a very smooth seedbed.
Plowing when it's wet leaves ugly clods, hard to deal with. We've all had to do it, but try to avoid it if you can. Will make a poorer seedbed all year....
Do not, not! work the ground wet with a disk. That leaves pavement behind you. If you have wet clay soils, you'd be better off with a field cultivator rather than a disk. If your soil has some sand in it, then the disk will be fine. Not a disk-plow, that is a big heavy thing, you are looking for a light finishing disk, called a disk-harrow in some areas.
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