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Martinsville, Ohio | The Miami Crosby series was really good soil but never should have been plowed every year Hay. Adam's pictures aren't that much different than a lot of Ohio soils. The way our soils was farmed on the east coast a 100 years longer than yours was just enough to do that much damage.
With notill we can hold the damage pretty much in check and with tiling, liming, cover cropping we can start turning it back around again.
In the late 1700's the home steader would chop down everything he could get his axe through, girdle the big trees to let them die and plant corn and wheat and whatever between them. Life was a slow tedious process like building this house brick by brick baked from this soil. That is really hard for me to picture.
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Just got my cover crop flown on.......lots of pics
