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What do you mean, increase soil fertility?
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That's what my guy at Cargill is for!
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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Yeah I know this is just an AI generated meme, but people who look like this are actually pretty solar punk, in my experience. I first heard of fracking radishes from a 70 year old farmer, 15 years ago. This meme just promotes culture war bullshit.
I know, I grew up in a farming town. One of the few reasons I accept how fucking angry rural people are is because of how the internet and urbanites treat us, it doesn't matter who I'm talking to as soon as I let my accent slip you can see their opinion drop as now they just see a country hick
Wut?
You use super long daikon radishes to break up the soil and then disc them in. Breaks up soil naturally without plowing and acts as winter cover.
https://www.restorationseeds.com/products/fracking-forage-radish
Hey that's super cool!
We looked at using a paratill that injected manure pellets behind it for the same thing, with the idea that the manure would encourage deeper rooting/long term break up. It kind of worked, but not really. It was also really labour intensive and expensive.
Throwing something like this into your rotation would probably work a lot better given that an article I read (Raper et al 2001, I think?) found that while subsoil tillage works, you need to do it at least every 3 years; not a one time treatment like we were doing.