| NEILFarmer - 6/27/2012 21:27 I find ripped to be harder with a tile probe now and comparing ripped to relatives strip-till/no-till, ripped is hard as a rock now and always. Yard which has been 30 years sod the probe almost falls through the soil. So i'm wondering, how do i get yard soil structure in my fields[?] You will never attain the soil structure under annual cropping that you get under perennial sod (or alfalfa). But the closer you get to that benchmark, the better off you'll be. No-tillage, and cover crops, are the best you can do for annual cropland -- plus, doing everything possible to maximize biomass (ie., good agronomic practices), and cut down on surface compaction from machinery. Building a good population of earthworms and nightcrawlers helps greatly, too. |
This talk about the drought: Tilled vs. No-till
