Farmers Tips and Advice
Dear SVN,
This year my crops haven’t been growing as well as they did last season. My family and I harvest wheat and corn. We had gotten a combine harvester and decided to make more farmable land out of the grassland around our farm and ever since then our soil has started to become more dry and it sometimes blows away. If possible, do you think you could tell me the reason this is happening and a solution to it?
From,
A SVN Reader
Dear SVN Readers,
Your problem is a problem that we commonly have and we can tell you why this is happening. This happened because when you turned the grassland into farmland, you uprooted deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. This caused the soil to be too light for your crops to properly put their roots down, and the soil couldn’t keep in an appropriate amount of water for them to grow properly. We would recommend planting something with deep roots, such as trees, to break the wind, hold water in the soil, and hold the soil itself in place. Reader in your case we would also recommend that you do an anti-erosion technique called strip farming, which is a method of farming which involves cultivating a field partitioned into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotation system. Thank you for reading SVN and good luck with your farming.
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SVN