Explain Benefits of Mulch Mat for Planting

and then what you've got you've got a really nice mat that you can plant into and what we'll do is we'll take our drill and we'll come right in here and there's a there's a culture on the front that cuts me a slit in right here opens to land up and then I've got a double disc opener in the back that will that will spread it apart drop the seed down I've got another press where that comes right back in presses right down it keeps the the weeds from germinating after you get the planet you've got this mat on here and also helps with moisture retention because the Sun when the Sun hits the soil in evaporates all you order is just evaporating and then also your nutrients can leach out through the soil too once the Sun hits it it's just it leeches out as this as this mat breaks down into the micron micronutrients that is also a feeding ground for your earthworms your different funguses your your your good fungus that grows in the soil and all kinds of microorganisms will actually feed off and they will eat all of this biomass that you're producing it's a new style of farming that we're all leaning toward so we don't have to use antibiotics so that we're not relying on petroleum based fertilizers so that our meats are better there better for us and they don't continue this epidemic of obesity and diabetes that we have in our country so now we're going to go look at some that's already been crimped and laid over what a couple weeks ago yep and plant it so you'll get to see the actual beam coming up through the rope all right lane so we're gonna field that you've already rolled in crimp right that's exactly right okay we're gonna look down in here and we're going to see what are we gonna see we're gonna see what's left over of our radishes we're gonna talk a little bit about those and what they're gonna do for our soybean crop coming in and also look gonna look at this nice pretty mat that this cover crop is gonna give us to help host emotion and this field is how many years in the works this is the fourth year whew nice let's get down close to the ground check it out basically we just pulled back this this really nice thick mat that really covers the ground really good and as you can see is right here is a tuber that's left over from our radish and most of the times these radishes are anywhere from a foot to two feet deep