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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag General Discussion
Does No-Till solve all our problems?
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<blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 1644106" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>I think you can get into a negative spiral with some fields where there is a structural problem which causes poor yields which means poor rooting and low biomass returns which in turn doesn't sort out the structural problem and so on.</p><p></p><p>I think there's not point hoping that serious structural problems will disappear with the odd cover crop. Is there an underlying cause for the structural problems? What's the drainage like? Is the moling up to date? Have the ditches been cleaned?</p><p></p><p>We have just bought a new old 360 digger. Without fail our least productive fields (and nearly always our worst BG problems) are where the ditches are not performing adequately. In some cases drain outfalls are well below the level of the ditch. I also just met with a contractor yesterday who has a circular saw on a long reach 360 to start taking down our overgrown hedges. We plan to start with the worst areas first and go over the whole lot eventually. Next door estate has really gone hell for leather with their ditching - they did 30 miles of ditching last year - and apparently some of their farms have been transformed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feldspar, post: 1644106, member: 386"] I think you can get into a negative spiral with some fields where there is a structural problem which causes poor yields which means poor rooting and low biomass returns which in turn doesn't sort out the structural problem and so on. I think there's not point hoping that serious structural problems will disappear with the odd cover crop. Is there an underlying cause for the structural problems? What's the drainage like? Is the moling up to date? Have the ditches been cleaned? We have just bought a new old 360 digger. Without fail our least productive fields (and nearly always our worst BG problems) are where the ditches are not performing adequately. In some cases drain outfalls are well below the level of the ditch. I also just met with a contractor yesterday who has a circular saw on a long reach 360 to start taking down our overgrown hedges. We plan to start with the worst areas first and go over the whole lot eventually. Next door estate has really gone hell for leather with their ditching - they did 30 miles of ditching last year - and apparently some of their farms have been transformed. [/QUOTE]
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