Keep in mind an "advantage" ....especially on a small scale....can be very hard to quantify! This concept and the like is simply another adaptation from production farming, where advantages are measured in dollars and cents....and may or may not translate thru scope/scale of plotters. It's nice advertising for pushing a product.... I'm sure those things are not cheap....and I can buy a gallon of gly pretty cheap these days!
I here where your coming from but I’m in a area that is a huge sand pile with a little topsoil. Having some mulch on top of the soil is a great benefit in my area.
Jack
I mow now but really don’t keep that mulch layer that a crimper can do.
That is not a Grant Woods technique. It is a pretty standard no-till farming technique.
Correct but Grant has dummied it up for food plotters and has shown it works. He continues to refine it for plotting such as planting soybeans and then crimping a few weeks later in a effort to keep the deer from eating the beans.That is not a Grant Woods technique. It is a pretty standard no-till farming technique.
I have a roller crimper and in this spring planting season there are fields I crimped and drilled as well as mowed and planted.Without question I find the crimper the better way to go. However, there is a technique to managing fields required for using the crimper vs simply mowing so its not for everyone . Nonetheless the advantages of following the technique are significant including using less or eliminating herbicide { a key driver for me } improving soil thus reducing inputs which in the long run save money....and besides, its just plain cool!.
I will post video later today showing fields I crimped vs mowed.