Reread Yeomans book. He developed a special plow that digs deep but doesn't turn over the soil. It essentially breaks up the hardpan. But that plowing is done parallel to the keyline
It pains me to realize more people dont know about the benefits. Especially when I know that certain fields near our area are hard as a rock, and prone to drying out in summer, and then become fire prone.
hiii, the keyline plowing concept is practical in area where rain occurs.. but in the area without rain.. very little rain.. won't make much different will it ? just want to know. andrew
It should be beneficial anywhere you have compacted soil. You can certainly use other techniques to slow and capture any water you do get first. Build up your soil, and with breaking up the compaction youll start dropping more water into your ground. Besides PA Yeoman, Check out Zephariah Phiri, They developed similar concepts.
@@andrewyek- I completely disagree. That´s a totally wrong perspective. Where rain is scarce, any method of water retention/preservation becomes increasingly important. So its precisely the opposite. When you have plenty water, retaining it doesn´t make so much sense, does it? ;-) All the way to the other extreme point where you might need to "drain" the field instead of retaining water. I´m actually living in a country with huge amounts of water. Water retention "investments" here are quite small. When you need it, more will come, hopefully. ;-) By comparison with my original country where every drop counts, literally "millions" are invested and even so its still "short". ;-) Curiously, in an almost sarcastic way. This last Summer was the hottest/drier here, in more than a Century. Water retention infrastructures are not in place... Result, lost crops, wildfires, people rigging ways to transport/store water, etc. ;-) Cheers
@@andrewyek How much is "very little rain"? When you think about it, there is no such thing. Let's assume you get 200mm a year. That's 200 liters per m2. That´s a lot if you can store it and use at least part of it during the dry season.
The benefit of keyline is the water table increases more so than additional plant growth.
so how has this field developed since?
I always thought Keyline ploughing was more use of dispersing water more evenly over the land than it just running into the valleys?.
Reread Yeomans book. He developed a special plow that digs deep but doesn't turn over the soil. It essentially breaks up the hardpan. But that plowing is done parallel to the keyline
What do you mean by muck? Manure application?
Where did you get that scale?
It pains me to realize more people dont know about the benefits.
Especially when I know that certain fields near our area are hard as a rock, and prone to drying out in summer, and then become fire prone.
hiii,
the keyline plowing concept is practical in area where rain occurs.. but in the area without rain.. very little rain.. won't make much different will it ?
just want to know.
andrew
It should be beneficial anywhere you have compacted soil. You can certainly use other techniques to slow and capture any water you do get first. Build up your soil, and with breaking up the compaction youll start dropping more water into your ground. Besides PA Yeoman, Check out Zephariah Phiri, They developed similar concepts.
@@andrewyek- I completely disagree. That´s a totally wrong perspective.
Where rain is scarce, any method of water retention/preservation becomes increasingly important. So its precisely the opposite.
When you have plenty water, retaining it doesn´t make so much sense, does it? ;-)
All the way to the other extreme point where you might need to "drain" the field instead of retaining water.
I´m actually living in a country with huge amounts of water. Water retention "investments" here are quite small. When you need it, more will come, hopefully. ;-)
By comparison with my original country where every drop counts, literally "millions" are invested and even so its still "short". ;-)
Curiously, in an almost sarcastic way. This last Summer was the hottest/drier here, in more than a Century. Water retention infrastructures are not in place... Result, lost crops, wildfires, people rigging ways to transport/store water, etc. ;-)
Cheers
@@andrewyek How much is "very little rain"? When you think about it, there is no such thing. Let's assume you get 200mm a year. That's 200 liters per m2. That´s a lot if you can store it and use at least part of it during the dry season.
how often it is plowed ? once per year or just once in a life time ?
it certainly make more growth of hey.
andrew ysk I only did it once. Good grazing management was more effective.
how deep is the plowing ? it certainly make human running not so easy. .lol