Pofarmer - 6/15/2011 09:46

Had some pretty heavy rains here the other night.  I'm driving around and looking, and some of the fields that have had primarily, or all, Verticle type tillage, talking about Salford and CaseIH 330 Turbo, have TERRIBLE sheet erosion.  The fields that are no-till have a few gullies.  The fields that are conventional have some sheet, maybe a little rill, but not the extent that the VT fields do.  This is just a drive by.  Looks to me like the VT machines are leaving a thin layer of very fine soil on top of a layer of, if not compacted, then firmer soil, and the finer top layer wants to wash off.