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How Do I Avoid the Wet Winter Slump?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7596730" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I fully agree with minimising power applied to the soil. It's ultimately counter productive and worsens the slumping, loss of organic matter and natural fissures. It wastes time and diesel.</p><p>But I do have some heavy pondy areas that seem to need some sort of help, in a subtle, careful, non damaging way if they aren't to revert to their completely natural state which is essentially to become the bottom of a lagoon or pond which is what they were before they were drained and farmed.</p><p>Some would say they should be left to go back to that state but they aren't a nice discrete block that I can hive off but a patchwork all over the farm between sand which direct drills with ease.</p><p>I think spot low disturbance subsoiling to the porous fill and light stubble cultivation is probably as good as it gets for me. Then spray off and drill with the moore which works well in that situation. There are cover crops and all that malarkey but I just don't seem to have the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7596730, member: 2119"] I fully agree with minimising power applied to the soil. It's ultimately counter productive and worsens the slumping, loss of organic matter and natural fissures. It wastes time and diesel. But I do have some heavy pondy areas that seem to need some sort of help, in a subtle, careful, non damaging way if they aren't to revert to their completely natural state which is essentially to become the bottom of a lagoon or pond which is what they were before they were drained and farmed. Some would say they should be left to go back to that state but they aren't a nice discrete block that I can hive off but a patchwork all over the farm between sand which direct drills with ease. I think spot low disturbance subsoiling to the porous fill and light stubble cultivation is probably as good as it gets for me. Then spray off and drill with the moore which works well in that situation. There are cover crops and all that malarkey but I just don't seem to have the time. [/QUOTE]
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