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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7870583" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Some 40 odd years ago, there was a rather famous Farm Machinery lecturer from Harper who said that there are all sorts of cultivators in the world, but that basically they all do the same thing.</p><p></p><p>He also said that most of them are used to excess, because when farmers are feeling down or miserable, there is nothing like getting out there and doing some cultivating. He called this RECREATIONAL CULTIVATION!</p><p></p><p>As regards RECREATIONAL, he was referring to a recreational pastime which makes farmers feel better because they think they are doing something positive.</p><p></p><p>Where’s in reality, it just turns out that 40 years later, with regards the soil, I have learned that RE - CREATIONAL (as in creating something positive) is absolutely the last thing that cultivating soils is doing. In fact, completely the opposite!</p><p></p><p>No where in nature does soil self cultivate. As soon as we do it, it looses Carbon and degenerates.</p><p></p><p>Therefore NOT CULTIVATING the soil is the true RE - CREATIONAL Cultivation. Because it REGENERATES it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are a lot of folks on TFF who helped teach me this, such as [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] , [USER=3357]@Warnesworth[/USER] and his colleague Steve Townsend and many other TFF DD’ers. You know who you all are.</p><p></p><p>Also in reality you absolutely cannot teach anybody anything, unless they absolutely want to learn!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was at a conference on Thursday, where a farmer pointed out that where veg and root crops are grown, the soil must continue to be ploughed or deep cultivated.</p><p>However, in reality, when you have Regenerated the soil and its structure has improved enough, the only reason for ploughing is to create a soil medium to allow harvesting machinery to work.</p><p>Just as we have seen a massive improvement in what DD drills can now do, root and veg machinery manufacturers need to catch up in creating harvesters that will work in soils that don’t need ploughing ridges or beds to be created.</p><p>For instance planting such crops under a bed of straw, compost mulch or composted FYM. All of which could add to the Organic matter after harvest.</p><p>There is a lot more to learn yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7870583, member: 44728"] Some 40 odd years ago, there was a rather famous Farm Machinery lecturer from Harper who said that there are all sorts of cultivators in the world, but that basically they all do the same thing. He also said that most of them are used to excess, because when farmers are feeling down or miserable, there is nothing like getting out there and doing some cultivating. He called this RECREATIONAL CULTIVATION! As regards RECREATIONAL, he was referring to a recreational pastime which makes farmers feel better because they think they are doing something positive. Where’s in reality, it just turns out that 40 years later, with regards the soil, I have learned that RE - CREATIONAL (as in creating something positive) is absolutely the last thing that cultivating soils is doing. In fact, completely the opposite! No where in nature does soil self cultivate. As soon as we do it, it looses Carbon and degenerates. Therefore NOT CULTIVATING the soil is the true RE - CREATIONAL Cultivation. Because it REGENERATES it. There are a lot of folks on TFF who helped teach me this, such as [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] , [USER=3357]@Warnesworth[/USER] and his colleague Steve Townsend and many other TFF DD’ers. You know who you all are. Also in reality you absolutely cannot teach anybody anything, unless they absolutely want to learn! I was at a conference on Thursday, where a farmer pointed out that where veg and root crops are grown, the soil must continue to be ploughed or deep cultivated. However, in reality, when you have Regenerated the soil and its structure has improved enough, the only reason for ploughing is to create a soil medium to allow harvesting machinery to work. Just as we have seen a massive improvement in what DD drills can now do, root and veg machinery manufacturers need to catch up in creating harvesters that will work in soils that don’t need ploughing ridges or beds to be created. For instance planting such crops under a bed of straw, compost mulch or composted FYM. All of which could add to the Organic matter after harvest. There is a lot more to learn yet. [/QUOTE]
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