All farming ground everywhere could have a hard pan under it if it hasnt been ripped deep.Think about it like this,even if you plow it,there is a limit to how deep you can plow it,under that there is a chance you have an area thats hard packed.Clay is not very good no matter what you do to it because of what others described and it just doesnt grow things well,but you can rotate different things on it and get as good as you can out of it.After all these years of farming it with horses and now tractors there is an area on top thats been worked a lot,and like a piece of rock under that level,especially if its clay under it.It probably would help it to chisel plow it deep as you can then next year go the other way across the field.Not sure if that would even work for clay but thats what you would do with most other kinds of dirt and I have seen people do that with clay type soil.As far as compaction goes you cant do a lot about it other than duals.Tractors dont compact the soil as much as horses.Clay stays in a state of being like its compacted anyway.I doubt the tractor is really having a lot of effect on it.The plow is tearing it maybe curling the surface you see and the tractor tire is cutting through the ripped surface mashing it back down.If you dug into the clay the same depth with a shovel and compared it to where the tractor tire ran over it probably would not be much difference.
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