remember years ago panacur slow release boluses were meant to be bad for stopping cow pats breaking downYes.
only a few inches deep and long breaks for fertitlity make a big difference from continous cereals using mega hp to beat soils to submission with power harrowsThe Egyptians were using what we would recognise as a plough 4,000 years ago. There are many written references in England to ploughs and ploughing from 1100 onwards - although this later date could well be due to the sparsity of written records before then.
Ploughing must have an impact on worms, but they seem to have lived happily with being ploughed for millennia.
How do slugs survive it all then?only a few inches deep and long breaks for fertitlity make a big difference from continous cereals using mega hp to beat soils to submission with power harrows
Lots of people say slugs are a lots less of a problem after cultivation than in DD, at least until the beneficicals have built up numbers to control them,How do slugs survive it all then?
Better hope glyphosate doesnt get banned, wonded what the soil association have to say about that study
So ploughing can destroy 20% each time, I wonder what the SA would say about any chem etc that a conventional farmer used that did that much damage to worms/bees etcHere's an idea of the SA angle on such things...
https://www.soilassociation.org/blogs/2017/april/helens-notes-from-the-farm-week-6/
remember years ago panacur slow release boluses were meant to be bad for stopping cow pats breaking down
Can I use that phrase in future, please?Unfortunately shades of grey such as this make it difficult to really trumpet the benefits of conservation Ag be it worm populations, carbon sequestration etc etc.
Yes, I won't put any new calves inside for that reason if they've been drenched a month prior to transport.remember years ago panacur slow release boluses were meant to be bad for stopping cow pats breaking down