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managing your soil<br />
Corn on corn<br />
Keeping residue on the<br />
field reaps residual benefits<br />
On a crisp fall day, brothers Brian and Jeff Turnis<br />
headed out with a few visitors to a field on their<br />
Bernard-area farm where they had planted no-till<br />
corn-on-corn for several years.<br />
With them was Lori Schnoor, who carried a bucket, a shovel and an instrument<br />
that is used to measure how compacted the soil is in any given patch of ground.<br />
For Schnoor, who is a soil conservationist in Jackson County with the Natural<br />
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), these are the tools of the trade.<br />
First came a simple test – use the shovel to turn over a chunk of ground.<br />
Schnoor did this and then picked up a fresh clump of soil in her hands.<br />
“Look at this,” she said, sifting it with her fingers as Brian and Jeff came over<br />
to take a look. The sample of soil she held was full of worm casings and a few<br />
worms. Everyone was happy with what they saw.<br />
“That’s nice and crumbly,” Brian said, nodding his approval at the evidence<br />
of a healthy ecosystem beneath the surface. “This is why we’re big believers in<br />
Brian and Jeff Turnis plant a<br />
corn-on-corn rotation on their<br />
farm. It’s one of the steps<br />
they’ve taken to build the<br />
organic matter in their soil.<br />
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