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...“You might get capping or compaction of the soil at the top, which makes it more difficult for crops to establish and roots to penetrate,” he explains....
...Compaction makes it harder for plants to access nutrients and for soil to hold water. “You want the soil to act like a sponge so that the water is there when the crop needs it,” says Clarke....
...Working horses have become increasingly common in vineyards as they generally entail much less harmful compaction of the soil than all but the most recently designed tractors....
...In the UK, Cardiff-based Thermal Compaction Group’s “SteriMelt” machine — now in several UK hospitals — sterilises and melts protective masks, wrappings and drapes into reusable plastic briquettes....
...The more weight you put on land, the greater the compaction, the less space for air and water beneath the surface, and thus less greenery on top. And the earthworms don’t like it....
...It was a bit like Beckett, were Beckett less concerned with death and more preoccupied with “compaction” in the farm machinery, where to find vanilla extract, and the cricket captaincy....
...Worms are also an indicator of soil health, being affected by matters such as acidity, water logging, and compaction. They're easy to identify and count....
...The GPS enables us to do is to drive the tracks always in the same spot so we don't have any soil compaction, and that increases the yield where there is no tracks....
...Worms are an indicator of agricultural soil health, being affected by acidity, waterlogging, compaction, tillage, rotation and organic matter management....
...Even if the recent run of unusually hot summers were to end, the lost ice cannot be quickly replaced as the compaction process that forms glaciers takes decades....
...If the turf is watered promptly and spiked to aerate the compaction, the grass will recover within days....
...last year, Wirtgen is one of the world’s biggest manufacturer of road construction equipment with its products covering the entire road construction sector – including milling, processing, mixing, paving, compaction...
...“Replanting a whole plot allows you to restructure the soil and solve any compaction problems. And the roots take much better. You end up with better balanced vines.”...
...In order to avoid soil compaction no one was allowed to step on any growing area. She limed it, once, and added blood, fish and bone as fertiliser, in order to keep the garden organic....
...Reduced spraying also saves on diesel and reduces soil compaction. Conventional plant-breeding makes use of plants’ normal processes of sexual reproduction....
...The new mix uses a consolidation method, called roller compaction, that is quite different to that used on traditional roads....
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