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REDUCE FIELD COMPACTION WITH A TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN
February 21, 2017 By Filed Under: Crops, Human Interest, News, Ohio
The Ohio state soil scientist says a traffic control plan can reduce yield loss from compaction. Steve Baker is with the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
“The more you can get on a similar spacing, the better off you’ll be and kind of be thinking about your lines through the field. Some of the research I’ve seen shows up to 80 percent of your field can be tracked up if you’re not really thinking about what you’re up to” says Baker.
He tells Brownfield compaction can lower the amount of water and nutrients reaching the crops.
“The water and associated nutrients cannot get into the soil as easily and they may move to a different part of the field so that’s why you’ll see hot spots with more growth here and less over there” says Baker.
Baker says building up a field’s (To read more, or listen to the audio(3min 35sec long) click link below):
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