Certainly far from dry here. I think once we get a more regimented CTF system (which won't be until the next combine) then we could cultivate and then not expect to re-traffic. That won't happen at the moment though.
Went digging in our spring barley fields (which had no deep movement) and they are certainly so so much tighter than ground which was ploughed last year. I know the difference between consolidation and compaction, and I think we do now have some tightness which is more like compaction. I think the natural soil structure has not yet appeared and in the absence of artificial loosening those fields are in a period where there is some limitations on plant growth. Where this is pervasive across the whole field it's a slightly different situation. In this instance I'm not sure whether it's better to leave it or cultivate.Going forward I like the idea of cultivating and then settling into a CTF system to that the loosened areas are not put back down again.
I have to say though when digging around that the ploughed ground does look really nice. You could hardly look at and say look at the pulverised / slumped mess. It digs and smells good.
I think the prolific use of cover crops have really helped us while soil structure has improved, root have done a lot of fixing of issues we may have created