Farm Basics from Ag PhD Episode #1376 | Air Date 8/18/24 - Brian and Darren talk about the causes of soil compaction and how farmers can fix or reduce it.
Hey guys, I am a software engineer and a farmer in India. I just wanted to say that your videos have been helping me quite a lot for the last couple of years. I also follow the information provided by the Indian Institute of Soybean Research but trust me guys my national institute gives shitty useless information. I just want you guys to post more and more videos because you are making a big difference in my yield.
You say that you must avoid compacting again after the soil layers have loosened. BUT you don't say how? Why not mention the elephant in the room - Controlled Traffic Farming!
It's a pretty big molecule compared to other ones, so it makes the soil more porous/resistant to being compacted. Imagine a bucket full of small pea gravel and how big the air gaps in that are, then imagine mixing in some bigger gravel (this represents something like calcium) and how the larger material would create more air space since it can't fit together as well. Hope this helped!
