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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I really MUST treat myself to a penetrometer for Xmas ready for farm hunting......It should give a long-lasting benefit if carried out at the right time of year. My little 90hp Same certainly grunts into it, but when I crossed the line into the field that had been subsoiled in the past, I could go twice as quickly
I had previously gone around with a proper pentrometer and discovered where the tight spots were, basically the banks with historically shallower roots and smaller plants still had a tight spot at 15-ish inches below the surface, but the rest of the fields were OK
Really brought home just how much of a force "fertility transfer" is within a regular rotational/ paddock grazing system,
- you see the damage around a gateway or tank and think "it's compacted", but the compaction issue is possibly actually at the far end of the field, in reality - one of those "we don't know what we don't know" things