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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1798098" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ray+Archuleta+slake+test+rainfall+simulator&view=detail&mid=48C02B7AB4601467633C48C02B7AB4601467633C&FORM=VIRE" target="_blank">Ray Archuleta Slake Test and Rainfall Simulator Test</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/search?&q=Ray+Archuleta+slake+test+rainfall+simulator&view=detail&mid=DA98DB9BAD03D0CD1D1DDA98DB9BAD03D0CD1D1D&FORM=VDRVSR&ajaxhist=0" target="_blank">Ray Archuleta Rainfall Simulator... Larger Scale Demonstration</a> This second demo is done on "slices of soil" cut right from the various fields, rather than using a "table top" scale. Very impressive demonstration.</p><p></p><p>The slake test primarily shows you the impact that tillage has on the structure part of it. The rainfall simulator demonstrates the impact on water absorbing/infiltration. Both are "negative impacts" as a result of tillage. Both demonstrations are very eye opening. There's more to it than just the impact of tillage... but both demonstrations DO accurately compare the difference between the various "systems of operation".</p><p></p><p>If you don't have enough "roots" in the soil, the biotic glues provided by roots, which are required to build the aggregates, will be diminished... and so you'll have a more difficult time building and maintaining aggregation. Less roots also = less soil microbes/soil life... these are the "workers" that build the aggregates are dependent upon those root exudates to survive. Row crop mono-crop farming, with a single species of "roots every 30", for example, = less roots, and less diversity of roots. This automatically means less "soil life", and <u>less diversity</u> of soil life.</p><p></p><p>It's not just about avoiding tillage, ...or "keeping the soil covered with residue", ...and it's not just about using a "cover crop", ...and it's not just about adding livestock to the rotation... it's about incorporating all of these "soil health principles and practices", as much as possible, all the time. THAT'S how nature works at its best, and how it was intended to function. It NEVER functions optimally with a mono-crop, or with "only annual plants", or with "plants only in 30" rows with the rest of the soil kept bare chemically OR with heavy use of tillage. It simply CAN'T function optimally within those parameters. These all go completely against the way that the system was designed to function.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1798098, member: 39018"] [URL='https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ray+Archuleta+slake+test+rainfall+simulator&view=detail&mid=48C02B7AB4601467633C48C02B7AB4601467633C&FORM=VIRE']Ray Archuleta Slake Test and Rainfall Simulator Test[/URL] [URL='https://www.bing.com/videos/search?&q=Ray+Archuleta+slake+test+rainfall+simulator&view=detail&mid=DA98DB9BAD03D0CD1D1DDA98DB9BAD03D0CD1D1D&FORM=VDRVSR&ajaxhist=0']Ray Archuleta Rainfall Simulator... Larger Scale Demonstration[/URL] This second demo is done on "slices of soil" cut right from the various fields, rather than using a "table top" scale. Very impressive demonstration. The slake test primarily shows you the impact that tillage has on the structure part of it. The rainfall simulator demonstrates the impact on water absorbing/infiltration. Both are "negative impacts" as a result of tillage. Both demonstrations are very eye opening. There's more to it than just the impact of tillage... but both demonstrations DO accurately compare the difference between the various "systems of operation". If you don't have enough "roots" in the soil, the biotic glues provided by roots, which are required to build the aggregates, will be diminished... and so you'll have a more difficult time building and maintaining aggregation. Less roots also = less soil microbes/soil life... these are the "workers" that build the aggregates are dependent upon those root exudates to survive. Row crop mono-crop farming, with a single species of "roots every 30", for example, = less roots, and less diversity of roots. This automatically means less "soil life", and [U]less diversity[/U] of soil life. It's not just about avoiding tillage, ...or "keeping the soil covered with residue", ...and it's not just about using a "cover crop", ...and it's not just about adding livestock to the rotation... it's about incorporating all of these "soil health principles and practices", as much as possible, all the time. THAT'S how nature works at its best, and how it was intended to function. It NEVER functions optimally with a mono-crop, or with "only annual plants", or with "plants only in 30" rows with the rest of the soil kept bare chemically OR with heavy use of tillage. It simply CAN'T function optimally within those parameters. These all go completely against the way that the system was designed to function. [/QUOTE]
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