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ecmn | Just like the old-timers said, cultivate through a drought because capillary action brings up water.
In your case with high saline soils, the tillage is bringing up the water and the salts with it and then the water is evaporating off leaving the high salt load behind.
NDSU had some great management on saline soil areas. I would reach out to them folks.
In a nutshell, get perennial seeds in there and the plants will start to help water infiltrate and take the salts down. Even if kochia is the only thing that will grow . That's okay. Mow it. Don't let it go to seed but don't till it. That plant is going to help. And then you keep getting perennial seeds out there and over some years that area of dead will keep shrinking.
Again, reach out to either the South Dakota or the North Dakota universities or extension. They have tremendous amount of knowledge on this stuff. | |
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