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Radish a good marker of soil health
Sep 28, 2017, 11:16 AM
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A cover crop seed salesman in Minnesota calls the tillage radish a good marker of soil health.
TJ Kartes with Saddle Butte Ag tells Brownfield the tuber-style brassicas provide a unique way of seeing what’s happening underground.
“When it hits a hard-pan layer, it kinks a little bit and then goes down again. So what we saw in 2013 when we did a lot of research when our preventative plant year was going on…we’d dig these radishes and go down about 2 1/2 to 3 inches and see the first kink.
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