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| I recently took some photos of cover crop effects on soil structure that may be of interest.
the 2 shining stars on the farm this fall in terms of promotion of granular crumb structure seem to be annual ryegrass and phacelia.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
pic1 = close up of phacelia including a flower (a very small # of plants are blooming)
pic2 = phacelia roots at the soil surface
pic3 = granular soil structure under phacelia
pic4 = annual ryegrass roots at the soil surface
pic5 = granular soil structure under ARG
pic6 = Turbo-tilling a cover crop cocktail mix including sunflowers, sunnhemp, soybean and barley
pic7 = soil structure under cover crop cocktail
Edited by jbgruver 11/20/2012 15:49
(Phacelia.jpg)
(Phaceliarootsatsoilsurface.jpg)
(Phaceliagranularstructure.jpg)
(ARGrootsatsoilsurface.jpg)
(ARGgranularstructure.jpg)
(TurbotillCCcocktail.jpg)
(tripleSSbarleygranularstructure.jpg)
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