Western Producer: VIDEO – Fast farm machines seen as threat to soil

Most farm machinery manufacturers don’t seem to care much about soil health, say a number of soil scientists at the University of Manitoba.

That’s a problem because many of them make machines that damage soil and undermine the sustainability of today’s farms.

“They’ve doubled the speed and they’ve dramatically increased the (soil) degradation,” said David Lobb in a meeting with Manitoba agricultural journalists. “They’re really not interested in soil conservation.”

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