No, no. There are a couple of ways to do it. Before you had to have what's called a sweep of 12 inches wide and you actually would cultivate and rip up all the ground and get all the weeds. Now we'll disturb anywhere from a “disc”, which is maybe half an inch on 10 inches. Or if shanks are going into the ground every 10 inches or 12 inches, you only have three inches that actually go into the ground, so you're only disturbing three inches out of 12 inches. So anywhere from 5% to 30% of the field is actually getting tilled where the seed and the fertilizer is put in. That allows the worms and the stubble and the material to stay in the ground, and you get the whole system going with more bugs, more bacteria, and everything. It is far healthier. The organic matter is increasing.
On May 17th, 2012. See this statement in context.