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If your using cover crops to moderate soil moisture instead of tillage.......
What happens to land drainage. We have all seen how strong osr roots can interfere and block the tiles functions. If we are looking at increasing subsoil root biomass in this way for most of the year surely it will have a negative impact on the flow?
It's such an investment to drain well, and I don't believe anything other than a perennial (cover/cash) crop would rip the equivalent water that flows away (wasted?) under this clay, but it is correctly argued good drainage is a pre requisite for no till.
Discuss!
What happens to land drainage. We have all seen how strong osr roots can interfere and block the tiles functions. If we are looking at increasing subsoil root biomass in this way for most of the year surely it will have a negative impact on the flow?
It's such an investment to drain well, and I don't believe anything other than a perennial (cover/cash) crop would rip the equivalent water that flows away (wasted?) under this clay, but it is correctly argued good drainage is a pre requisite for no till.
Discuss!