In more detail, this is how Wade explained the problem in the photo above.
“In the foreground you’ll see there is a field with mungbeans in it, of which the 200m or so at the end of the field have been drowned out by the water that is still lying there. If you look across to the right of the photo you can see some corn stubble. Where this corn stubble ends is where the paddock of mungbeans also ends. The mungbean paddock and paddock with the corn stubble in it has not been Optisurfaced. There is a straight line along this boundary where the water lays in the foreground and where it is not laying in the background. The paddocks in the background used to be an extension of those in the foreground, except to say that water used to lay even worse than the background paddocks than the end of the paddocks in the foreground.”
“Prior to the fields in the background being Optisurfaced you would have seen water laying in the field starting where it is in the mungbeans and extending probably 3/4 of the way to the trees at the very end of the photo. It would have stayed like that for weeks after this photo this taken. I can lose half my crop to ponding in wet years. Needless to say I was ecstatic to see zero water laying in the field I Optisurfaced, especially when I had this direct comparison with the mungbean field.”
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