Wet christmas

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Originally Posted by Skybird

What is with the top soil layer, what in German is called "Krume" or "Ackerkrume" - this layer of fine fertile earth that is the basis of nutrients and minerals and is housing the microbiome regenerating the field after harvest? When a soil erodes due to desertification and dryness, the wind blows this fine dirt away, what is left then is practically unusable for farming purposes again. What amount of damage does water do to this Krume layer? Isnt it this layer that its all about and what separates good famrming ground from bad one?


I am no farmer, thats why I ask.



And you said the tractors will drive n ot on wheels, but tracks. But isnt that also coming at a cost, an increased densification of the ground?

All depends on how clean that water is if it has too much fertilizer, medicine, PFAS etc it will do more harm than good rivers are full of sediment that stays behind that was always good soil for farmers. Farmers also use ditch water that is also river water. The kind of tractor has a different cost in money but for the soil not that will be prepared before seeding same as with wheel or track use.