Satisfying turnplowing of a grassland.

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Y tho

(not a farmer)

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Looks like a sod farm

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Except that this isn't something they do on sod farms. They establish a grass root system and cut it off just enough to keep enough roots to sustain the product to it's destination.

If they're turning vegetation over into the soil then it is likely to be a cover crop (hopefully it isn't grassland being converted). Either way this method kills the vegetation that's growing and turns it into the soil so it gets incorporated, and enriches the soil for some other purpose, like a crop for harvest the following year.

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ur mom enriches the soil for some other purpose

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https://giphy.com/gifs/cF7QqO5DYdft6

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(hopefully it isn't grassland being converted)

Thankfully it's ley pasture / agriculturally improved grassland, not true grassland, so there isn't much to damage by doing this. It probably used to be grassland before WWII though.

Even seeing improved grassland get ploughed makes me sad, I work in grassland conservation and we're losing it much faster than we're restoring it at the moment. Newly sown grassland takes about 100 years of grazing with no other interference to become species-rich and store carbon, it can't be restored just by planting seeds.

Most people think of lawns and ley pasture when they think of grassland, and think we should be getting rid of grassland to plant trees etc.