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Holistic Farming
monitoring soil health
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<blockquote data-quote="KMA" data-source="post: 3165180" data-attributes="member: 32"><p>So very true, our old place had a field where when ploughing you had the bar-point bouncing along the surface struggling to get the thing in the ground next minute it was burying itself out of sight in sand<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" />. We gave up trying to grow grain when I was about 15 and I packed in growing swedes and kale as soon as I could. I eventually changed to just heavy discing to reseed the pastures. I spent most of the time after I got free rein desperately trying to build up the OM. Its quite amusing that a lot of the things I was trying to do from gut instinct 30 odd years ago are now in fashion with a fancy name. Nowadays my son is in the next valley, just a couple of miles as the crow flies but the difference in climate is quite marked, he is on sandy alluvial soil that seems to have had it's OM denuded, most the land round me is gravel (apart from my garden<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KMA, post: 3165180, member: 32"] So very true, our old place had a field where when ploughing you had the bar-point bouncing along the surface struggling to get the thing in the ground next minute it was burying itself out of sight in sand:banghead:. We gave up trying to grow grain when I was about 15 and I packed in growing swedes and kale as soon as I could. I eventually changed to just heavy discing to reseed the pastures. I spent most of the time after I got free rein desperately trying to build up the OM. Its quite amusing that a lot of the things I was trying to do from gut instinct 30 odd years ago are now in fashion with a fancy name. Nowadays my son is in the next valley, just a couple of miles as the crow flies but the difference in climate is quite marked, he is on sandy alluvial soil that seems to have had it's OM denuded, most the land round me is gravel (apart from my garden:(). [/QUOTE]
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