EC Nebraska | KF Farm - 9/12/2016 13:36
True.
200 years ago, Mother Nature didn't till the ground 2-3 times per year and leave the ground dormant from September through March in corn or July through September for wheat.
So Mother Nature certainly had the deck stacked in her favor 200 years ago with something green or brown covering the soil 365 days of the year; with the exception of 1 burning every 20 years or so.
Try burning every 2-3 years. The Indians set the fires if the lighting didn't first.
No way would Illinois have been prairie without fires several times a decade.
But there certainly was a much more massive root system in place than most crop fields of today.
Edited by NE Ridger 9/12/2016 15:38
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Burning corn stalks
