Plowpans are a solid soil sheet of tightly layered clay only 6 to 8 inches below the soil surface that restricts water, root, and air exchange. Plowpans decrease crop yield, increase erosion, and make farm work more difficult. Plowpans can trap water like a shallow pond in the field which can mud up farm equipment or even kill crops during long rainy periods. However you cut it, plowpans aren?...
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