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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6673054" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Compaction is always an interesting discussion</p><p>I can't even bring it up without tagging in [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] just so we can reminisce... as you say no traffic is ideal, and getting soil conditions "right" rather than "it'll have to do" is probably the biggest factor of all</p><p></p><p>We probably think 'bone dry' is the best time but the boys in Oz have a different definition of dry to us, bone dry soil is only relying on aggregate stability to have any resilience to the weight above</p><p>Down here we'd tend to put the bales off to the side and drill the crop, place the bales (or place the bales, shut the gate in our system) but this in fact could be missing the time to do least harm. </p><p>If the soil's stressed from dry, are we doing more harm (eg killing a greater % of the biology due to less biology in the dry)?</p><p></p><p>A bit like saving drenching for a wet-day job, great idea until you consider the worms are up at the surface on a wet day, ready for your worm-poison to take them out? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite26" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" /></p><p></p><p>That's why HM is such a great decision-making framework, I'd venture that the "same track and bugger it" would lead to bare soil faster than the "different track each time"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6673054, member: 63856"] Compaction is always an interesting discussion I can't even bring it up without tagging in [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] just so we can reminisce... as you say no traffic is ideal, and getting soil conditions "right" rather than "it'll have to do" is probably the biggest factor of all We probably think 'bone dry' is the best time but the boys in Oz have a different definition of dry to us, bone dry soil is only relying on aggregate stability to have any resilience to the weight above Down here we'd tend to put the bales off to the side and drill the crop, place the bales (or place the bales, shut the gate in our system) but this in fact could be missing the time to do least harm. If the soil's stressed from dry, are we doing more harm (eg killing a greater % of the biology due to less biology in the dry)? A bit like saving drenching for a wet-day job, great idea until you consider the worms are up at the surface on a wet day, ready for your worm-poison to take them out? :unsure: That's why HM is such a great decision-making framework, I'd venture that the "same track and bugger it" would lead to bare soil faster than the "different track each time"? [/QUOTE]
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