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This slake test shows the difference in soil structure between 10 years of tillage (on the left) and 10 years of pasture (on the right). When dropped into water, the chunk of tilled soil quickly breaks apart as water is drawn into unstable pores. On the other hand, the... show more
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I keep saying ' Cattle are the solution, not the problem ".

Tillage shreds the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi [AMF] networks which exude glomalin, a sticky substance that forms soil aggregates. Bare follows, syn N, and chem-tills with GLY also adversely impact AMF.

So compacted pasture soils that result in high runoff and low water infiltration are better? A more informative comparison would have been tillage vs. agroforestry.

Compacted soils don't have the conditions to support the biology that creates and maintains soil structure. They typically fall apart quickly in a slake test.

We stopped tilling 10 years ago. Big difference. Thanks for all you do. Well done.

No-till (with covers) has a similar result…you probably know that but I had to throw in a plug for “bio-mimicry.” It also does better if something was grazing on it (think grazing covers or even in our case grazing winter wheat AND covers)

please help explain like to an elementary kid. No till farming proponent? "back to eden" Mulch farming? would like to know more. thanks

@pabrailey It’s also roots versus no roots? At what depth, in what time of year and after what crop is the sample taken?

@DawsonKristo Love this

Paging @aspiringpeasant .. z
