I've done it. I've seen the benefits. I don't want to give them up. At this point, I guess I'm committed to going with the 20 per cent, providing the companies show some leadership on the pricing of the non-Bt corns. Agricultural Publishing Company Limited .
Water is the key to high-yielding crops.
Even though it sounds like a contradiction, the reason to install tile drainage is to make more water available to the roots of the crop. To understand this, you have to understand how water behaves in the soil. Soil is like a giant sponge, full of holes of different sizes. Water drains out of the large holes very easily, but the small holes hold onto water very tightly. As the soil begins to dry, the large pores lose their water, so more of the soil's total moisture is held in smaller holes where it is gripped more tightly.