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How to improve Soil tilth, soillife, ed winkle and other smart guys
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mcupps
Posted 11/17/2011 23:52 (#2055360 - in reply to #2055182)
Subject: Re: How to improve Soil tilth, soillife, ed winkle and other smart guys


Downtown Shell Knob MO Come Visit!		If you don't have a residue problem, anything that will help slow down microbial processes is actually a good thing or at least not a bad thing. That usually means cooler soils and less disturbance and more carbon compared to N, which usually means notill. Im willing to bet that you have a lot of N in your manure, and that you always are trying to grow a kickrear silage crop so you also add some N with the planter or sidedress. So your soil probably always has plenty of N, then when you pull that silage off and the soil gets some sunlight and stays warm in the fall, you use that extra N to break down your OM in a hurry. This is great for nitrogen release, and I bet if you have a good year your have great crops. But anything to slow all those processes down will help with OM and humis and might slow down N release short term but will make up for it in tith, structure and drainage, water holding capacity durning dry conditions and Cation exchange. Lime, gysum, straw, sawdust and enough N to keep the corn plants from fighting with the microbes.
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