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RealisticRegenAg | Author and consulting agronomist Scott Gillespie presents science-backed practices that promote environmental stewardship and farm profitability.
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Steel to break compaction: Making room for roots (opens the original)
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“Tight soil” can be physical or chemical. From the surface, the symptoms often look the same: water pooling, poor growth, shallow roots and areas that never seem to perform. This episode takes a short detour from my Better Farming Prairies series on chemically tight soils to look at physical compaction. When does steel help? When do roots help? And when are we expecting too much from both? I cover traffic, headlands, wheel tracks, deep tillage, cover crops, and why diagnosis matters before choos
Tight soil isn’t a diagnosis: How to separate compaction from chemical soil problems (opens the original)
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“Tight soil” is a phrase we use a lot, but it isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a symptom. Water pooling, poor crop growth and areas that never seem to perform can all point to very different problems. Sometimes it’s physical compaction. Sometimes it’s salts. Sometimes it’s sodium affecting soil structure. Sometimes the problem is deeper in the profile than it looks from the surface. In this episode, I introduce the first article in my Better Farming Prairies series on tight soils. I talk about why diagno
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