If you have compacted soils, your number one friend is the earthworm. You need to increase the worm populations in your fields,” Dougherty says. “The way you do that is to reduce soil disturbance and provide living roots throughout the year.”![]()
Based on worm populations and how active they are, it’s estimated earthworms can turn over the entire top 6 inches of the field every 5-20 years.![]()
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“Earthworms can become your tillage tool, and you don’t even have to get any steel out of the shed necessarily,” Dougherty says. “If you’re worried about nutrient stratification, you need worms, you need living roots. You need cover crops to move those nutrients up and down the profile.”![]()
Dougherty says worm channels also produce about 70% of a field’s water infiltration rate and they are loaded with slime that is high in calcium and contains 5-10 times more nutrients than the adjacent soil
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InsidePTI | Planting Date Study Results ‣ Soybean
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Planting season is upon us! On today's episode, Jason is breaking down the yield impact we've seen based on soybean planting dates, using over 7 years of dat...
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Fertility Placement in Farming: Boost Yields with Application
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Fertility placement in farming improves crop yields and soil health. Learn how precision fertilizer application benefits your bottom line.
“The science behind fertility placement has improved tremendously over the years,” says Mike Petersen, former NRCS soil scientist and independent consultant with over 35 years of strip-till research experience. “Broadcast fertilizer should be a thing of the past. We should put the fertilizer in the ground where the plant’s going to find it. The plant doesn’t have eyes, hands or a nose. It has to run to the fertilizer. If you put fertility right in front of the plant, it will find it, and you’ll succeed and profit from it.
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Video of the Week: ETS Debuts Cover Crop Applicator
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Diversity is not just important for cover crops and rotations, but also for herbicides, says Bryan Young, professor of weed science at Purdue University.
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