Posted 4/6/2021 07:59 (#8936130 - in reply to #8936021) Subject: RE: How do you loosen up a hard pan area?
Northern Nebraska
Mechanically is the only way. Plants don't break hard pans. If they did there wouldn't be any. There are places here in Nebraska that you can still see the ruts from wagon trains. If 150 years of vegetation can't destroy that compaction a decade of cover crops won't help either.