Chaffee, Western New York | Thanks for the insights. Google had little in raising my understanding other that a claim that summer fallow was adopted after a battle in 1885. https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/2009/04/09/summerfallow-was-an-acc...
To me it is counter intuitive that a layer on the surface that would stop water from going up would let water come down. Breaking the capillary bridge to the surface, while allowing surface infiltration, is an interesting idea. (How else does your subsoil get recharged? I'm at 1500' elevation not much higher for a long ways and our souls are all moved by ice and dropped off. Are your soils recharged somehow by water from mountains and the water is flowing underneath?).
Hard to imagine that mankind hasn't found something that we like to eat that likes that kind of environment.
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John's World on US Farm Report.. "Summer Fallow is outdated?!?"
