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IA/MN/WI | There is an argument to be made that when you switched them to no till you had a big boost from more microbial life. There have been a number of recent studies showing that a single pass with a disk across any soil kills 80-90% of the biological life. Imagine living in an ecosystem where every year 80-90% of all life is killed, I would think it would be nearly impossible to function like that. Yet we do it to our soil every year....
I have done a lot of biological soil testing in the last 2 years for clients and noticed that on average no till growers have much larger microbe populations in their ground. I don't know how to quantify that, but it can't be a bad thing. | |
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Switching to no-till is most successful when planned well
