Deep Plowing - Why Farmers Plow their Field so Deep?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Deep plowing is not recommended for all soils.
Most soils which produce high yields show little benefit from deep plowing,
Others may double their yields.
There are many different reasons to do deep plowing.
1.For soil which would not take up water readily.
Water tends to run off such soils rather than to soak down the root zone.
Deep plowing modifies the soil structure so that water may be transported more
from the surface to the water table or Co drains.
2. To restore the ideal structure of the soils.
Mixing the clods, rolling them over and leave the space on the surface to a new field
which has not been previously intensively cultivated, which help the birth and the growth of the
Future new plant. It in fact, will be able to find the proper space to expand its roots.
3. Weeds control.
Deep ploughing tended to give better control of many perennial weeds,
and often of annual weeds than shallow ploughing.
My family has been farming for 5 generations and this is a lie. This is an insane waste of time and resources. So much fuel wasted to simply destroy thousands of years worth of top soil buildup.
Same! We never did this except normal ploughing...
It really depends on how the soil look. The farm where I grew up the top soil was sevral meters deep. Yes meters.
If you grow food in Ukraine, middle America or other rarely found extremely fertile places then ofcourse this makes no sense. Midwestern America is extremely fertile because all of the nutrient dense Earth was scraped off of Canada by glaciers during the ice age and dumped onto the midwest. If you have extremely dense clay soil, the water doesn't soak into the ground well, and will take all of your fertilizer into streams whenever it rains. This makes a ton of sense if you're starting a new plot. If youve been "growing for generations" then youre the beneficiary of years of growth activity and root penetration where the soil is looser and more prone to absorb water and fertilizers both natural and artificial. I use a really large raised bed where i live because i dont have heavy equipent to loosen up the 115 year old back yard filled with heavy clay, shale and ceramics/glass people used to toss outside back before trash pickup services were available. If i had King Tiger Tank or something i might plow but i grow food by hand, so i couldnt hope to grow without a raised bed.
@@SubvertTheState that's sad
Lol searching for diamonds I guess
The fertile black soil from the top put under the yellow soil, simply insane. 🤯
Bro its so the roots seek the nutrients buried deeper, thereby establishing a stronger foothold.
@@loudchips2072 Hmm. But it's the microorganism that activates such minerals so the plants can use them. This basically kills them though.
@@loudchips2072 Plowing exposes nutrients short term. Kills off the organic material that produce those nutrients long term. Its the main reason soil fertility is collapsing
After the huge floods in the mid west back in the early’90’s , they made a 10 foot plow, pulled by 2 Caterpillar tracked tractors.. they had to plow under 12-20 inches of sand and new dirt from the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers on all the bottom ground farms.. they did soil test and said that there was 20-30 feet deep of top soil underneath.. we have been farming only the top 2 feet for over a hundred years in many places..and after the Mount St Hellen volcanic eruption.. over a Billion tons of fresh volcanic dust has enriched the entire Northern states, Midwest and top eastern farm lands.
What i understand is that you mix a lot of things together
I don't know jack about farming but hooking up 5 tractors to cut a huge hole in the ground is bad ass.
That is how you prepare a future desert.
That's not how magic works
Yes, well, Greg Judy's comments come to mind!
Legit.... All I could think about during this video is " that looks like overfarmed soil right there, barren and weak"
Nope i disagree
ikr? These guys prepared millions of dollar worth of equipments just to create a future desert.
You know that great smell after you plow ?
That's all the value of your land going up in the air and drifting away $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Any plowing brings up seeds buried in the soil.
A relatively new farm technique is NO plowing. Using Round up or something similar, then a seeder that drills holes and drops seeds in.
@@veramae4098 round up no longer works on most farms, instead, they have superweeds, and round up pays the farmer to shut up and plow then under
@@veramae4098 been using it for decades , no till drill
It's terrifying to see all the black dirt turned under. I wish we had black. All ours is yellow clay.
You must have a higher matter of sulfur and clay soils I imagine.
@@Hankbhomeless all yellow clay. Terrible to work with and washes easy. We manage though. Not much plowing in our area. Southern Ohio
2:53: ploughing the dark soil under and leaving nutritionally-bland yellow sand on top. terrific illustration of THE main failure of ploughing. well played, eejit
There are a few exceptions in the US where deep plows are needed. One thing not mentioned in this video is sandy or silty clay soils in desert regions that haven’t been worked before may be necessary. States such as Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and even parts of New Mexico where ground hasn’t been worked in awhile may see this. It really isn’t something you would ever want to do on conventional fields that are worked because you’ll destroy your top soil horizon and essentially have to start all over again with added nutrients and fertilizer to being back you 3 major Macronutrients. If someone is doing this regularly, they have no idea how soil health works and should leave the ag industry alone.
Stop plowing
No till all the way! We shouldn’t disturb the soil. Fungal ecology is an important aspect that is often overlooked
What you going to do when your weed burden is sky high
In Australia were topsoil is very thin, plowing is discouraged. Zero tillage has much better outcome. To me plowing is a bad idea, you disrupt the soil fauna, cause compaction, destroy topsoil and get erosion. Hydrophobic soil can be dealt with biological and or chemical
Same here in the US. most everyone is moving to no till. It’s just the smarter thing to do
The guy is correct, it is only beneficial in some areas, especially now with the heavy-weight farm machinery compacting the soil.
In the south of Spain every 15 to 20 years when they dig up and replace the almond trees they deep plough, a couple of reasons but mainly because it helps stop soil erosion allowing the heavy rain to percolate down through the soil rather than wash it away.
In Scotland I have seen it done because of years of "no-till ploughing" for shallow rooted crops of barley, and no crop rotation, the top soil becomes tired, any fertiliser can seep down further than the 4 to 6 inches that is disturbed. The deep ploughing and a few years of different crops, brings the yield of the barley up by atleast 20%.
The other commenters that have been against the video probably come from areas where crop rotation and ploughing to a decent depth is normal.
Keep up the good work, I enjoyed seeing all the different ploughs and "tractor-trains" used.
Also the way they tied the tractors together, especial using a tractor tyre to use as a tension device.!
By "tired", you probably mean depleted of some minerals and nutrients. It would be so easy to add a bit of volcanic ash to replenish it.
@@silvergreylion the minerals and nutrients had just been washed down into the lower layer and needed "stirred" up to the surface again.
@@davyp2993 by washed down, do you mean into the river systems? There's no drainage in dead soil
@@davyp2993 That's because the fertilizer makes them soluble so some is washed down, and the plants take up some, so the top layer becomes depleted over time.
Then you plow into subsoil, and some years later, the layer of depleted soil is even deeper.
That is not a sustainable way to grow crops. You have to replenish what's taken away or washed out/down.
Volcanic ash and dust will do that.
Look at all this beautiful dark soil buried under lifeless sand. One can only expect benefits from this technique when you see soil only as a mechanical plant-holder.
Here in Brazil, before plowing the soil, we do a compaction assessment before plowing.
and we also use the no-tillage technique, which generates great savings and profits for producers.
And here comes the "ain't never heard of that around these parts, therefore it don't exist" crowd.
1:50 This soil USED to be fertile, that's why the farmer started working there in the first place. What we're seeing here is the result of decades of chemical use, which has killed all life in the topsoil, turning it to a barren wasteland. Deep plowing will bring up the deeper fertile layers, and once those have been destroyed, the land has become worthless for agriculture or anyone for that matter.
It's funny how organic techniques have proven themselves to work, keeping soil alive and actually improving, while retaining the same profits, but most farmers are like "Nope, I'm sticking with the ones forcing me to destroy my soil and send me into dept for millions every year, because THEY know what they're talking about".
Well world ground is becoming that wasteland very fast
It’s sad. Just look at it. It looks like someone just dumped truck loads of sand out there. It’s just lifeless. There’s nothing there. Chemicals aren’t great for it but that’s mostly the result of plowing and other tillage.
Well i listen to other people and read comments but i think its down to growing the same crop in the same place for decades ,no crop rotation to replace vital nutrients ,no lying fallow to allow structure to repair itself .They are looking for more fertile soil that has not been completely raped of all natural nutrients
Весь плодородный слой смешали с глиной зачем так глубоко пахать это неразумно
Когда будут высаживать плодовый сад или виноград то плодородный слой будет у корней.
The only time that I have seen deep plowing was when the fields were flooded and that flood brought a few feet of sand to the property. Crops will not grow on sand, so you plow below the sand layer to bring up the actual soil to the surface. Then you can grow crops again..
Nice footage, but the explanations were crap.
doesn't matter what you say dude, you know nothing about tillage effect the living soil, there's more life inside the living soil than above the soil, go and study about the living soil, you really need knowledge 😡
1:04 clay soil instead of black soil? Where is agriculture in this? This is stupid AF.
This video is confusing a deep plowing practice that is rarely carried out anymore with video clips of deep plowing in certain parts of the Netherlands and Germany. The plowing carried out in this videos is mixing multiple soil types in river bottom group to reduce soil stress. It's pretty well documented why the Dutch have this specific practice.
Plowing too deep results in bringing subsoil to the surface which isn't great soil medium for growing plants.
You are exactly right .
I could see it maybe in certain cases where you have abundant topsoil. Some of these look like they’re plowing the black dirt under and pulling up the sand and crap that nothing will grow in
Oh...this kind of deep plowing 😳
5 tractors to pull 1 plough does make me chuckle 😂 New subscriber. Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴
I can see the value of deep subsoiling to break through a hard pan. I can see the use of occasional regular plowing. But I honestly can’t figure out why someone needs to do deep plowing. I guess it could be used to deepen the top soil layer but that would take several years to build the sub soil on top into true top soil.
Oklahoma dust bowl 🥣, remember?? Opposite of that which creates the desired results, here we go again.
No one remembers.
Said@@robertcasellas4751while a solemn WWI-type remembrance tune is playing in another of my youtube-tabs 😂
@@robertcasellas4751 They remember, they just see dollars in the sky. They'll gladly give their grandchildren a dust bowl to inherit if they thought they could retire on the beach.
I think a lot of society's ills has to do with aging older generations who no longer really believe in the afterlife even though they go to church regularly, so they support policies they know are terrible out of spite for the generations who will inherit the nation.
Look at the greedy farmers who sink 10,000 foot deep wells to grow alfalfa for the Saudis for their own cattle.
Everyone should watch "Kiss the Ground" documentary, it explains how and why modern agriculture is destroying this planet. I take my hat off to the farmers world wide, who struggle to break even, feeding the planet, chasing inputs and yields, fighting nature, the greed of industry has pushed the farmer into this decline.
And so it turns out that over time this has been recognised as a really bad way to treat and eventually degrade good soil
😕Human history is chock full of examples of us having plenty of time to learn valuable lessons, but still failing to do so. It's now the 21st century, and our educational institutions are in-doc-trinating students in the outdated, failed i d e o l o g i e s of m a r x i s m & postmodernism.
I would love to do some metal detecting after ploughing that deep. 😊
I know in California they will deep rip (using a D-11 dozer) to bust up the hard pan that's 6 ft deep.
Yes but turning the sub soil over your top soil makes no sense
HOW STUPID CAN WE PROVE OUR HUMAN RACE ?
DEEP PLOUGHING HUMANS: HOLD MY BEER
People will never get it
I find it interesting on the different types of soils we see here.
In new york state where we farm we just chisel plow & disc,We also do a lot of no till planting for corn.
*Зачем такая пахота? Зачем нарушать верхний плодородный слой?*
As someone who works and lives on a farm in Germany, I can immediately see that the creator of this video knows very little about agriculture.
I do farming based on decades of research and at least here, we always consult with experts. As it turns out, while "ventilated" soil is great for plant growth in the short term, there are a lot of processes in the ground that need anaerobic conditions. That's why at least here, we usually only plow once every few years now and only do very shallow work for the rest. That has worked well for about ten years now and the soil is indeed in much better shape now.
Also, notice how the soil that is deep plowed up in this video has a light, yellowish color compared to that brownish black that is plowed under. That means that this sand contains next to no nutrients. Good luck growing anything except maybe a few bushes in that.
Perfectly said. In the Netherlands we sometimes make use of deepploughing, but always on sea clay soils, we try to bring fresh sea clay soil that is lighter to the surface. However we always make sure to atleast mix the old top layer with the new top layer in order to keep the nutrients. Besides that sea clay soils are pretty special, i would never deepplough on sandy soils.
Did you not hear him say that the old vegetation is plowed under to decompose and create new nutrients?
I'm sure with that $1,000,000 in equipment, they don't know what they are doing 👌
@@hadrianwall9157 This is a practice that was believed to be very productive pretty much from the eighties onwards. With modern science though, exept for a few edge cases (for example when planting trees), it turns out to do more harm than good.
@@OleJanssen I'm not doubting you, and I'm definitely not a farming expert.
Just seems like an awful lot of money on that field for something with iffy results.
@@hadrianwall9157 The farmers are looking at this & asking what are they doing?!!! I agree there must be a reason for it but I think it is a very special case. Maybe not growing the crops that we farmers are used to?
If anyone believes the process is being done at such expense for no financial benefit. You've only missed knowing what it is that is being sold from the effort.
under a certain depth the soil is barren
This is extremely wasteful, entire industry is moving towards direct seeding for a reason, plowing like this will not improve yield.
And it's still failing because the entire industry is a scam. It doesn't work and never has. In the late 50s chemical lobbyists bought out senators and reps and pushed for industrial row cropping.
The only reason I can think of to deep plow is if you are in Siberia where you need to get down and break up the permafrost so you can get deeper roots.
That's what I was thinking it seems like a waste of fuel and time if you aren't breaking up frozen ground
Then use a deep ripper it will break up compaction or a hard pan layer with out burying your top soil.
If you did this in western Kansas the weeds probably wouldn’t even grow lol
When you planting fruits and grapevine it is good.
That sounds correct . I was thinking specific crops that thrive on loose soil and deeper nutrients it will be of benefit to.
I wondered that.
They dig down the soil and Bring Up Sand?
My thoughts exactly. Like wtf?
Music ruined the message and educational information.
Why? Because they don’t know about efficiency. This is an absurd waste of energy, money and time.
I'm my entire life farming I have never heard of those
It's a overly complicated version of ripping
hey, you can achieve exactly the same and even more by planting a low growing cover crop and use a no-till seeder to plant the whatever you wanna harvest. in different words, stop all tilling methods and keep the surface green all year round
not if you have a layer that would act as a barrier for water.
@@AwoudeX yes you can by using a crop that has big root systems like some clovers and actually let it grow for several years, nowadays grass and clovers doesnt develop the root system that it needs to actually soften the earth because it gets ploughed down as soon as it doesnt yield as much
yep... you forgot to mention small thing - tons of roundup
@@petery6775 yes, roundup is a big head scratcher but i think if you use a small dose with round up before you seed the main crop so that the grass doesnt take over. or you could use a type of row mower maybe and mow between the rows to keep the grass small while the main crop is growing.
@@timzakrisson1323 it seems you not familiar with current no-till farmers programs. it is not "small doze".
that is the problem. half of 'no-till fans' have no ID what is this all about, other part is just round-up sellers... xD
Soviet style farming….just in case the right way was too successful.🤔
Wasn't this what they had to do to the soil surrounding a fairly large area around Chernobyl after one of their power stations exploded?
I'm from SE Minnesota. I've never seen any plants grow on a pocket gopher mound. Nuff said!
That'll definitely eff up a gopher's world in a hurry.
here a normal dept for plowing is between 25 and 45cm if you want to go real deep for planting an orchard you can go 1 meter deep
Yeah they should really be ploughing 5m deep, think about all the soil that never gets used. 50cm, what a joke, this is nothing. We can top that.
Know your soil. Farmers dont just deep plow everyday for fun.
I never realized that this was such a contentious subject. But, on the other hand, I don't know jackshit about farming.
Plant a cover crop instead, then plow/till back into ground in spring time. No need for deep plowing.
DO YOU EVEN FARM DUDE DEEP PLOWING IS DONE SO THE MUTCH VERTILE SOIL WHATS ALL THE WAY DOWN GETS TURNED TOPSIDE AND ALL THOSE YEARS OF FARMING DONE ON WHAT WHAS TOPSOIL GETS TROWN AT THE BOTTOM THERE FOREW UR GROUND IS WAY VERTILE THEN EVER BEFORE AND WATER RETENTION HAVE NICE DAY FROM NETHERLANDS FARMING IS OUR LIFE
@@superbanaan9 Woah man no need to yell
@@FonicsSuck how can i yell when typing
@@superbanaan9 LIKE THIS!!!!
@@superbanaan9 the soil below the rich, black layer is not fertile... You can see on the video how the fertile part is dug under sand or clay.
Just here because drunk
Valid
0:45 see all that bare soil : that is waste.
See this video : that is bad soil management.
Good video but the computer voiceover is off putting.
today on the internet: most sexualizable farming expressions.
My family runs a cultivator 2" deep after surface-applying liquid manure and cover crop seed at the end of our crop rotation. All it does is cover up the manure so it doesn't stink/ lose nitrogen, and plant the cover crop seeds. As a result there is a compaction table just below the surface about 4-6" thick, but the tillage radish, sunflowers and other crops in the cover mix punch through readily. This is the only tillage we do.
I have to assume this video is some kind of skit.
We do the same on our farm. No runoff erosion and no wind erosion.
Why it looks so satisfying 😌
Literally destroyed the entire soil biome, and likely any historical artefacts within it.
Why was this in my watch later list?
Deep Plowing is more used for Vineyards or any type of Crops that have LONG root structures. It looses the Dirt down deeper for These Crops. Think more like Tree Roots
It is not something you would do with Crops like Corn, wheat or similar. Normal Plowing will take care of weeds. Deep Plowing is Not needed for this.
Deep Plowing is Also Considered to be Expensive( as you need the equipment for it and Tractor powerful enough or many Tractors powerful enough to do it.) It also Takes ALOT longer to do to. on Avg about 10 times Longer to do deep plowing vs Normal plowing. As you are moving MUCH slower.
the man who supplants nature takes his place and kills all life in the ground, a lot of courage with these techniques that you 'nstop once you have only sand.
The soil that nourishes the plant and allows good rooting of plants is composed of bio mass, insect, insect droppings, earthworms, michorid fungi, which form symbioses with plants that can transpot and share nutrients with plants on 10km.
Man kills the earth, but you will never replace it with your chemistry and your techniques, you are responsible for soil erosion, the disappearance of groundwater and the desertification of arable land.
The earth glasses form galleries which the plants use to root themselves deeper, minerals go up and down and all other things to make the earth like a sponge which then allows the water table to recover the water, the degections and other organic matter of the insects enrich the soil as well as the fungi on which the plants feed, you are partly responsible for the climatic problems of our time and we are living with you a new great mass extinction birds insects, fungi, it is the basis of what nourishes us.
Ask your old people how it was 50 years ago 60 years ago insects crush on cars after long journeys, today there are no more on cars, even after 2 hours of driving.
@@alisterone3299 Depending on time of year. I still get them on the car Enough and alot of them. During Late Spring into summer time and early fall. Out washing the car due to amount of bugs on it.
It would takes years to regain topsoil if you only plowed inches below into the subsoil. Plowing feet into the ground is not a shortcut to gaining topsoil.
The only deep plowing done here is to your yield and profits
The comments here were really fun to browse through. Thx @all and remember brothers and sisters to UNDRAIN THE SWAMP!!! MAKE THE SWAMP GREAT AGAIN!!! Destruction wrought by deep ploughing cannot offset the strength of regeneration and growth in a healthy swamp elsewhere!
SWAMPLAND JUSTICE WARRIORS UNITE!!! FOR A PEAT PUNK FUTURE!!!
Destruyen la microbiología del suelo...
Destroy the microbial life?
Still, farmers and the petrol chemical industry knows best eh?
I was always told that deep ploughing brings up unwanted weed seeds.
I can see this kinda working in an area that’s been heavily compacted like an old road demolished buildings.
But you have to put new top soil on immediately
Wait, I thought REGULAR plowing automatically yanks weeds out? Is deep plowing sometimes done to prevent weed infestation? Or do they use a crop duster to spray it?
A lot of crybabies commenting. Plowing is necessary and beneficial to the soil. Not every year. But once every 3,5,7 or ten years.
It isn't. Because soil is moinly microorganisms including fungi. Their structure gets destroyed for years to come
Soooo……. What you’re saying is leave the soil alone and moinly eat bugs and fungi?
@@America-First2024 I'm glad you are asking. The mothods are called regenerative agriculture to build humus and fix nutrients, water and CO2. Everything else is degenerating top soil until desertification is complete.
I’ve watched some videos on regenerative farming mothods. They’re not doing well with crops. They’re being robbed of nitrogen by other plants(grass and weeds). So just eat the bugs and fungi after the crops die?
@@America-First2024 well here in Germany we have a field of science dedicated to the right application and crop combinations. So make sure you know what you're doing. In Germany, conventional agriculture has 50 harvests until desertification. So you better accept some clever ideas than putting violence to your ground by using stupidly big mqchinery
Плодородный слой закопали , а глину выкопали☝️👎
Tiene sus cosas buenas, en especial para suelos compactos. Pero bueno, también voltea la tierra y mata muchos microorganismos, con lo que los nutrientes del suelo dejan de estar tan disponibles. Además, si se quiere hacer en parcelas grandes como una hectarea o un acre se necesita esa enorme cantidad de maquinaria. Sirve para hacerlo una vez cada varios años para los suelos muy compactos. Pero lo ideal es hacerlo una vez y tirar bastante compost y materia orgánica así el suelo se va llenando de microorganismos y humus y deja de ser tan compactado.
What about wind erosion. Isn't this what caused the dust bowl
Not the same there. Too much rain, not too much wind on dusty soil.
Why is everybody saying this is bad for "the soil"? I guess every soil is different so a person's reality doesn't aply to all situations. Would like to see some arguments that show it is bad for all kinds of soil, not "the soil".
the quality of a soil is based on how much "life" it has, fungi, bacteria are responsible in making available most macro and micro nutrients for plants, this kills them as it also kills the insects and other animals that improve the fungi and bacteria, what you end up with is dead soil that after some time will turn into a desert
@@hugo5149 they said on the video to do it on dead overfarmed soil or in soil that does nit absorb water so i guess mostly clay useless soil.
Microbes are the life of soil. By exposing them to air, you kill them. As for so-called dead soil, cover crops regenerate. This is third world shit
@@zaxarispetixos8728 how do you think it gets like that to begin with, you can't build up organic matter by doing this, thus why it is dead
Perhaps the original problem/evil is compaction of the soil under the weight of a way-to-heavy tractor (farmers wanna boast right??). After the evil of the sealing and compaction is done, one is forced to fight evil with evil by ploughing this deep.
Tell me if im wrong... I say for only this reason you do this... leveling fields at extreme conditions... like you need take of 40cm from high point 🧐 first plouw to 70cm (brings 40cm bad soil to surface) take it to the lowlevel area, now you have the valuable 30cm at the top again! Also where the ground been raised (say) some points raised more than other points. Required to be plowed, here you take the old 30cm + how much it raised for how deep to plouw so brings the top soil back to surface.
Most soil samples are 4" top surface. 100% wrong! Roots from high yield corn go 6-8 ft down and get very little nutrients from surface. Many farmers, not all, would be able to "neutralize " there soils by doing this. I don't believe doing a full turnover is the right solution but a deap rip method is a solution to hard pan soils. I think more soil sampling needs to be done in sub soils, where the actual nutrients come from for making the ear of corn.
In plowed soils, with constant fertiliser applications, roots go like 1 foot max
I have grown corn for years and you are mistaken in your statement of root depth.
Real deal, deep ploughing
Plows are parked in the weeds & edges of the woods with trees growing through them for a reason.
It depends on your soil you have you want to make a large top soil layer for adequate yield in crops compared to those which have very thin top soil. Plowing works best in sticky clay soils and clay sand soil types compared to no til which has less crop yield per acre than a fine moldboard plowed field.
@@henryofskalitz2228 I seen the soil he was deep plowing, look at it. He was plowing the TS under. If planting trees it works, but not for shallow rooting crops.
Farmers that don't mold board plow have to dump more fert and chemicals on their land to get the same crop to grow that I get with no fertilizer 😉
Right, thats why everybody still runs plows right? Not. LOL. It's the 20th century & yer still thinking about Johnny poppers & 2 bottom plows.@@JB-co7fb
@@JB-co7fbplowing has been proven to destroy soil, you can get away with it for a while and depending on your starting point you can go for a while but you’re killing your soil by continually using tillage.
3:16 I can’t see all these machines being needed.?
I bet they find some reeeeal nice rocks. 😂
What a fun way to destroy soil life, accelerate compaction, and increase runoff. All while spending 💰💰💰 on fuel and machinery too. Wowie. Such innovative humans
Yes bro, they are so stupid, you tell them. Go do some permaculture on a 200ha field.
In a farmer. In the medieval era maybe it was needed to plow. Nowadays are enough studies that says it's not. There are places where there is not enough soil to plow. To fix ground compaction just a chisel type implement is used, a subsoil is named where I live, and does not turn upside down the soil!
What is up with all the morons who missed that this not a normal procedure and it's not necessary everywhere?
I've never seen this done in Denmark, that has some good soil, if you discount the western part of jutland.
And plowing isn't usually done every year, either.
If you guys seriously think that the bacteria in the soil are killed, then you do not have much faith in bacteria.
And guess what, the western part of Jutland was infertile heath until it was deep plowed. Afterwards it became somewhat fertile, although sandy and better suited for potatoes than grains, in many parts.
Stop being so afraid of that which feeds you.
Read about mycelium
Healthy plants are actually indigestible by most bugs. If it's fit for bugs then you probably should not eat it.
@@canadianfarmervision2955 it's ok to eat even if bugs want it, but top notch plants will predominantly be avoided by bugs
I grew up on a farm in Manitoba Canada and rarely saw plowing even 40+ years ago.
I agree with you this kind of plowing is very rare and i am sure they have a reason for doing it because it must be very costly.
@@canadianfarmervision2955 ...lol..bs
This is a huge waste. Not good for your topsoil either.
In Australia it is rarely done because in our shallow soils it mixes infertile subsoil with fertile top soil. Apart from being extremely wasteful on fuel and wear and tear on machinery. Over here, plant roots are much more effective at aerating soil than plowing, they die and leave millions of channels for water and nutrients to enter.
Silliness. Add organic matter to improve drainage. Chisel plow if necessary leaving soil layers intact. Use rotary tillage or discing on the top layer to incorporate crop residues. And don't compact the soil by running 5 CATs over it.
The cats do not compact the soil.
The cats in this video have a ground pressure rating of 5 psi and the tractors hove as high as 70 psi.
Finally, a commenter that is jot mentailly ill. Thanks topcat!
Just look at the cross-section of the soil before the plow turns it over. Fertile, humic-rich soil on top, lighter and less fertile soil below, and deep plowing deliberately takes that fertile layer and buries it where the roots of annual crops can't reach it. Deep plowing is only a benefit to sterile soils with poor structure, where you won't necessarily lose anything by destroying that already-poor structure.
While everybody else is trying to get on board with no till you got these jokers that treat the ground like a piece of paper they can flip.
A deeply uninformative video.
Watch Gabe Brown's lectures to learn about NO-TILL, MULTI-SPECIES COVER CROPPING, MOB GRAZING and more. See how today's farmers are improving their soil, increasing organic matter, increasing water infiltration, protecting soil from erosion and top soil loss, increasing profitability, reducing inputs, growing healthier food, protecting the health of the environment., and more.
I don't know who is gonna run over that with a disk but it ain't gonna be me
Good thing diesel is so cheap
People deep plough because they have no understanding of soil.
I used to do the same to college gf.
Me too
The problem, as mentioned in other comments, is that you turn over and bury the most fertile top layers of soil, breaking the hard pan in certain areas is a good thing but plowing that deep is fairly rare. Most of the farmers in my area have completely gotten away from plowing at all and use drills to plant seed and alternate the crops from heavy nitrogen feeders to legumes to put nitrogen back in every few years.
yes but also if its the fist time doing it its to loose the soil for the roots and help more seed the chance to open and go but i totaly agreed they did it too low so they will have to add alot of fertiliser
I live in central Midwest United States we rotate our crops. We plant corn or soybeans every other year. Sometimes we let the fields rest and raise alfalfa. It helps put nitrogen in the ground just like soybeans do.
@@unknownuser2737 Your roots, especially the deep roots like alfalfa, are doing the deep plowing for you. Same thing, just more less time efficient.
How can you grow anything at all in the turned over soil.? I was watching the fertile top soil being buried like 5 feet down, and now the "hard pan / sand layer" is on the top..
I imagine their soil is just different from what we're used to. It's definitely just crazy looking compared to what I've grown up seeing.
You add a shitload of fertilizer...
But yes, there are plenty of studies showing that deep plowing is actually detrimental most of the time, especially in the long run
In some parts of Canada, they deep plow because "the nice black topsoil" is just peat moss and grows nothing. Deep plowing mixes it with the dirt underneath and then crops can be grown.
When perception is stronger than reality. Pretty sure a farmer who has been plying his trade for decades knows a bit more about agriculture than people posting on RUclips.
@@Mark-em5zm even the randome RUclipsr my know something, the reason to plow is to allow a greater diversity of nutrients to become available to the roots. Deep soil of all kinds are full of inorganic nutrients by taking the organic topsoil and putting it under the inorganic soil it gives the roots a greater reason to go deeper using less water and creating more drought resistant plant, the topsoil is still available for use to the plant. It just has to get to it.
I have plowed deep my whole life...........I'm not a farmer.......
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