Preventing Saline Soils
Lee Briese, a crop consultant from North Dakota, shares tips on how growers can prevent their soils from becoming saline in the first place.
Dedication To Conservation Changes Soils, Pushes Yields
In the 11 years Mike Werling has been ‘never-tilling’ and using cover crops, organic matter levels climb, yellow clay soils turn blacker and yields steadily increase.
One of the best compliments Mike Werling ever received was a couple of springs ago, when a scientist for the federal government examined a soil pit on one of Werling’s fields.
The pit was in a yellow clay-type Blount soil. But the first 8 to 10 inches deep had a darker color and was turning black. Upon seeing that, the NRCS scientist said he’d have to reclassify the soil because that type of Blount soil…
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