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Belleville, Ontario | I know that you have all ready sent the soil test in, but I suspect that there may be a lot of stratification of nutrients, because the grass/weeds have been pulling fertility from the soil and dumping it on top of the soil. In truth, this ground has been no-till for 30 years. I'd take a two or 3 depth sample, 0-3", 3-6", 6-12" to determine if the nutrients are all sitting on the top. Stratification is worse on heavy soil as a rule. If you plow it, this won't matter.
Also, by plowing you will "burn" a lot of that available organic matter, and release those nutrients very quickly next year. With some nitrate testing in the spring, you could put corn on this (nitrogen hungry crop) and use that N that is being released.
Don't forget inoculate if you are going into soys!
I'm not a fan of the plow/tillage either, but it is a tool that can be of use some times. I'm also not a fan of knuckle busting open end wrenches, but they work in the right place.
The Farmer's Edge Agri-Coaching
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no-till, virgin ground scenario....
