Clark SD | Yanny - 6/1/2023 13:13
The dead rye will wick moisture out of the ground and the cracks in the soil will lose more moisture than if it was lightly tilled causing a dry mulch on top. Just another way of looking at it.
I understand what you are saying, but sometimes doing light tillage can back fire on you. Back two years ago we did light tillage on soybean stubble that was later planted to spring wheat, compared to a field across the fence line with same rotation and soil type, but was not tilled it came up 17 bu/a short. |
conserving soil moisture
