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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7355429" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Ploughing heavy wet ground won’t increase infiltration rates. It will slow the surface run for maybe a week but with plough pan smeared over it won’t be long before the furrows overflow and infact gather the water across the hill into dips which then overflow off down the hill cutting grooves that make it even worse. When it’s wet all you do is leave it alone. Any action at all just seals any ground you touch.</p><p>The footpath should be closed or rerouted so it takes a less problematic route.</p><p>Personally I think the days of having steep slopes in arable use are over, particularly with difficult soils. Permanent pasture and sucklers housed over winter, low intensity sheep or woodland is the way forward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7355429, member: 2119"] Ploughing heavy wet ground won’t increase infiltration rates. It will slow the surface run for maybe a week but with plough pan smeared over it won’t be long before the furrows overflow and infact gather the water across the hill into dips which then overflow off down the hill cutting grooves that make it even worse. When it’s wet all you do is leave it alone. Any action at all just seals any ground you touch. The footpath should be closed or rerouted so it takes a less problematic route. Personally I think the days of having steep slopes in arable use are over, particularly with difficult soils. Permanent pasture and sucklers housed over winter, low intensity sheep or woodland is the way forward. [/QUOTE]
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