Mr. Paul Moore:

Yes. As I said, the rules currently provide that farmers have two weeks to shallow cultivate after harvesting, assuming the straw is gone. Any farmer will know, you cannot farm by the calendar and say that it will be done within two weeks. It could rain for two weeks after the harvest. What is the farmer supposed to do in that case? If you dig wet soil, nothing will grow. I have walked a great many shallow cultivated fields with this project and elsewhere. I would say that probably 50% of the supposedly shallow cultivated fields had no green cover because nothing grew afterwards. It was just three or four inches of mucky, wet soil on the surface.