Soil Microbes Consuming Residue – Al Miron
Channel: USDA NRCS South Dakota
Date: 2016-11-25

With a PhD in ruminant nutrition, Al Miron knows that his littlest workers, the soil microbes, are always at work, like those in the rumen of a cow, consuming his residue.  Al noticed a few years into his no-till journey that his residue was being consumed, leaving issue like planter plugging a distant memory.  With the soil biology on Al’s farm as active as it is, he finds that its often difficult to retain residue through the entire growing season!

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