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Mr. DeSutter began fooling around with cover crops about 17 years ago, after Purdue University used one of his fields for research trials. One spring he was repairing a drainage tile in the test field and came across the deep, webbed root system that some Oregon ryegrass had put into the soil.
"I thought to myself, I have been pulling the guts out of my tractor to remove compaction 14 inches deep with a ripper," Mr. DeSutter said, "and this plant has just bored a system of micropores four feet deep between cash crops all on its own."
Something about this passage strikes me as interesting -- you don't expect to hear such a well-informed declaration full of jargon out of a farmer, but in truth, science and agriculture are siblings in human culture, aren't they?
"I thought to myself, I have been pulling the guts out of my tractor to remove compaction 14 inches deep with a ripper," Mr. DeSutter said, "and this plant has just bored a system of micropores four feet deep between cash crops all on its own."
Something about this passage strikes me as interesting -- you don't expect to hear such a well-informed declaration full of jargon out of a farmer, but in truth, science and agriculture are siblings in human culture, aren't they?