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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 2996768" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Heavy machinery leads to compaction at depth, no matter how wide the tracks or tyres IMO, especially if it's wet.</p><p></p><p>Shallow compaction can be caused by machinery but also lack of organic matter, over cultivation.</p><p></p><p>I'm stuck in a cycle of low organic matter needing cultivation to alleviate compaction. The cultivation then destroys more organic matter. I acknowledge this, but other than grassing it down for twenty years then never ploughing it, I can't see a way out of it. Not to mention blackgrass, brome, cranesbill, what to do with the straw etc which all become more difficult with zero till or it least make it a more intransigent system than the plough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 2996768, member: 2119"] Heavy machinery leads to compaction at depth, no matter how wide the tracks or tyres IMO, especially if it's wet. Shallow compaction can be caused by machinery but also lack of organic matter, over cultivation. I'm stuck in a cycle of low organic matter needing cultivation to alleviate compaction. The cultivation then destroys more organic matter. I acknowledge this, but other than grassing it down for twenty years then never ploughing it, I can't see a way out of it. Not to mention blackgrass, brome, cranesbill, what to do with the straw etc which all become more difficult with zero till or it least make it a more intransigent system than the plough. [/QUOTE]
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