So the chopped straw acts like an organic fiber mesh to hold soil together? Like to stop soil erosion?

@@prophet8973 well not exactly, it only adds extra organic matter to the soil to help microorganisms and worms to thrive, given them something to eat away at and something yo incorporate into the soil and topsoil. the soil erosion you speak of is in most part of the world solved by not tilling or only minimum tilling the soil, those are the concept farmers speak of when they talk about "no-till" or "minimum-till", which basically means you disturb the soil and topsoil as little as possible. those practices help keep the soil together, but the unfortunate side effect of that is soil compaction, the soil gets much more compaction when you dont till it or plow it, which is also why seeders and planters are different or has added parts to them when you have to seed into soil that hasnt been worked over beforehand. the philosophy behind minimum and no tillage is that the compacted soil doesn't erode as fast as worked, tilled or plowed soil does, and to an extent that is also correct, compacted soil doesnt erode so easy because its packed together, so rain or melted snow can't do much damage, but as we all know in the end, we can't really stop mother nature, enough rain or snow will do damage at some point, because the amounts are greater than what the soil can hold or let run off the surface, at some point the water will penetrate and do damage.

@@minkavlerenthanks for the knowledge drop, are you a farmer or an agronomist?

@@Cam-gb1cu i used to be a fulltime farmer, then in 2020 our government or the government in my country, diceded that my branch of agriculture and animal husbandry was too big a risk because of COVID-19, so they axed the whole branch and all our animals without actually having the rights to do so, so now I'm just a hobby / spare time farmer, we don't have enough ground to be at it fulltime and ground is too expensive to buy, so i work as an agro-consultant for my main income now. and you are welcome, if you have questions pertaining to anything else, I'll be happy to see if i can answer them for you, there are not enough people connected to the countryside nowadays, so if i can help someone educate others and themselves, it's a good thing.

Chopping straw and leaving it leaves potash and phosphorus (P&K) once it breaks down, reducing your fertilizer bill. If you bale the straw you need to replace the nutrients you remove in the straw. You only don't get nitrogen, I know that's the only fertilizer in farming simulator but in reality straw has value for fertilizer

How cool is that. I was a farmer and Daggerwin got me in FS for my farming fix.

Well using the same equipment over and over makes it very boring to watch in my opinion.

Thank you so much for this super thanks!! Sorry, I only just saw it! :)

I watched since he started playing farming simulator