All the organic matter gets turned under and decomposes in about a years time. Bits of very rotted pieces of corn stalks are turning up and crumbling, as I plowed today. These pieces of residue plowed under trap and hold moisture all summer long during the growing season. Just what do you gain by leaving all the crop residue on top to dry up and plug your no-till planters and drills in the spring or loose crop foliage that ends up blowing into and decomposing in a fence row?? I will be glad to compare our organic matter content in our soil to yours any day of the week. I can understand the virtues of leaving some residue on top of the soil to limit wind erosion, but here in the North East we don't have wide open expanses of crop land where wind moves quantities of dirt. We have lots of hedgerows and wooded areas and hills and valleys to limit wind erosion, and water erosion is controlled with contour strip cropping. We are not "Flat Land Farmers" here, and do things suited to our conditions. Loren
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