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Chesley, Ontario | Tillage, by loosening the soil, will open up the soil and allow water to soak in faster than in no-till until the new voids you created are full. You haven't made the water drain away any better, just helped it to soak in instead of sitting on the surface. Once you have worked the field next spring, and the soil settles, the infiltration rate drops back to the same or lower than no-till. The down side can be that you now have a soil that is wetter to start out with and so will take longer to dry.
If your fields are like a lot in Ohio we drove past on the way home from ASA at Indianapolis, the tiles are probably full, backed up from the ditches that are full, and nothing can drain away anyway!
We have seen a huge difference in the amount of rutting in tilled fields this fall, compared to no-till. | |
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