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We often refer to the “white” knolls in rolling land as eroded knolls because the topsoil (A Horizon) is thin. Erosion has usually occurred on a knoll but the original A Horizon was very thin and the B Horizon is absent. When cultivated, the A and Cca are mixed together so the topsoil has lime […] Read more

As you look at the pictures and read about them you might well think, “So what?” I think the reason there have been so many false starts on precision agriculture and the variable-rate fertilizer front is that too little attention is paid to the basics, i. e. the soil profile. The soil profile is the […] Read more

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