Posted 10/8/2006 12:23 (#49648 - in reply to #49496) Subject: Corn
Brazilton KS
When did corn suddenly quit producing a large root mass? When I studied crop science and agronomy something like 45% of the biomass in a corn plant was below ground. Did somebody repeal this?
Reduced tillage will do far more to increase OM then harvesting whole plants can ever do to reduce it.