Followed all these comments and could comment but won't.
On your wheat you plant and your comment. Years ago (1960 timeframe) here in N. Texas crop yields started to drop significantly and Texas was having to import grain to support demand.
A PhD put together a group of agronomists and formed the Texas Agricultural Research Station at Renner, Tx., paid for by farmers and donations, (gobbled up by Plano.....almost, by now).
Anyhew wheat as a rotational crop, and the fodder (stemmy residue) from it's production was found to be essential to soil survival. I couldn't believe the quantity of organic material soil (heavy clay) soils need for maximum productivity. It was like a couple of tons per acre per 3 years. Amazing. It was 3 years because wheat was grown in rotation with grain sorghum and cotton.
It did the trick and convinced farmers to plow it in rather than burn it off and also proved that proper fertilization yielded 6x the profits for x bucks invested in fertilizer.
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