{"id":1843505,"date":"2025-06-09T03:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1843505\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:29:21","slug":"why-exposed-soil-fails-the-sunday-soil-problem-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1843505\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Exposed Soil Fails: The \u201cSunday Soil\u201d Problem Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2Fo8JV1ZpU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy Exposed Soil Fails: The \u201cSunday Soil\u201d Problem Explained<br \/>\n<br \/>\nit&#8217;s Monday and there&#8217;s a new video on the farm learning channel Yes this is a new thing It&#8217;s a brand new series and it&#8217;s brought to you by the team at Ryo Ryzo is an online platform that offers some free and some subscription advice for people wanting to implement regenerative farming practices in their enterprise but who need a little bit of guidance perhaps or not quite sure where to start Ryo has you covered Now we&#8217;re going to be interviewing a host of people with expertise in various areas of farming and they&#8217;ll be short bite-size and easy to digest If you like this kind of thing hit the subscribe button hit the bell notification so you don&#8217;t miss out on a Monday video and we&#8217;ll see you soon Today&#8217;s video the first of them features Phil from Ryzo and he&#8217;s going to be popping up occasionally on the channel as well Good day I&#8217;m Phil Mulvy on the Farm Learning Channel I&#8217;m here on Colin Siz&#8217;s farm at his invitation and I&#8217;ve really enjoyed walking around having a look But there&#8217;s a few things I&#8217;d like to talk to you about Have you heard of Sunday soil now Sunday soil is a term to use that when it rains on Friday or Saturday it&#8217;s too wet to actually work You have Sunday off but the time you get to Monday it&#8217;s too dry to work because it blows This is because it&#8217;s got no organic matter So it&#8217;s known as a Sunday soil This soil years ago would have been prone to being a Sunday soil And I&#8217;ve got two things here You know I like digging holes So I got a hole dug with a bit of material laid out for the top 150 to 200 mil But next to it over here I&#8217;ve got material that was turned over 3 weeks ago and has been subject to sunshine and a lot of oxidation Now we can see with this material you can hear the sand and you can see that it unlike the other soils we&#8217;ve looked at in some of the other videos It&#8217;s almost got very little clay no silt and there is a lot of 2 to 3 mil aggregate in it It&#8217;s on a perian sandstone to to conglomerate and it is very very difficult soil to manage Colin&#8217;s done a fantastic job Now let&#8217;s have a look at what happens when it dries and you don&#8217;t have the litter on top and you don&#8217;t have the organic matter helping to protect that soil from the sun And you can see the legum species and there is a couple of worms in here You can see the litter sitting across So you can see that&#8217;s the protection You can see some the moths But if we come over to this one that&#8217;s been exposed it falls apart in my hands And you can see it&#8217;s blowing with just a tiny bit of work And you can see the aggregates in it I know for a fact because I was born not far from here is this material in the 60s not this property had huge gully erosion and was a major problem And the engineering solutions of contour plowing contour banks really didn&#8217;t do a lot because it didn&#8217;t address the issue of having to cover the soil to protect it and to ensure organic matter builds up But the organic matter buildup can be difficult and long Even on Collins&#8217;s property now as you can see it&#8217;s got aggregation at the top and it&#8217;s looking pretty good But that&#8217;s taken a while to get there But it&#8217;s only taken 3 weeks of exposure to sunshine to totally lose lose all that through mineralization If you&#8217;ve got sandy fragile soils keep them covered with both litter and plants And be aware that any full plowing particularly if it&#8217;s exposed for more than a couple of weeks will run the risk of mineralizing that organic cover and having the soil erode or blow If you found this video useful please refer it to your friends And if you really like this and others make sure you press that button down the bottom to subscribe<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow can we restore fragile, sandy soils and stop erosion in its tracks?<br \/>\nIn this debut episode of Digging Deeper, Tim Thompson visits Colin Seis\u2019s farm to talk with Phil Mulvey from Ryzo. Phil breaks down what \u201cSunday Soil\u201d really means \u2014 and what it tells us about a property&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0f How to identify degraded sandy soils<br \/>\n \u2714\ufe0f What happens when soil is left bare<br \/>\n \u2714\ufe0f Why organic matter is the foundation of resilience<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re working with dryland pastures or eroded blocks, this is essential listening.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udde0 More interviews: [Insert Playlist Link]<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd Filmed near Gulgong, NSW<br \/>\n \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Guest: Phil Mulvey \u2013 CEO of Ryzo, Environmental Soil Scientist<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 Related Videos:<br \/>\n \ud83d\udd38 Sunday Soil Explained on Colin Seis\u2019s Farm<br \/>\n \ud83d\udd38 Regenerative Grazing at Etiwanda Station<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcec Subscribe for weekly insights from Australia\u2019s leading voices in farming:<br \/>\n \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@farmlearning<\/p>\n<p>#SoilHealth #RegenerativeAgriculture #SustainableFarming #FarmLearning #SundaySoil<\/p>\n<p>Check out my website for even more content https:\/\/timthompson.ag\/<br \/>\nSupport me on Patreon https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/timthompsonmedia<br \/>\nFacebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timthompsonmedia<br \/>\nInstagram  https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timthompson.ag<br \/>\nSubscribe for a new video each week! New content uploaded every weekend.<br \/>\nMy Channel https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdtlC5DtsgZKCM8gislyDJw<\/p>\n<p>0:00 \u2013 New Monday Video Series on Farm Learning<br \/>\n0:11 \u2013 Introducing Ryzo: Free &#038; Subscription Regenerative Farming Advice<br \/>\n0:28 \u2013 What to Expect from the New Series<br \/>\n0:46 \u2013 Meet Phil Mulvey from Ryzo on Colin Seis&#8217;s Farm<br \/>\n1:06 \u2013 What Is \u201cSunday Soil\u201d?<br \/>\n1:28 \u2013 Soil Comparison: Organic Matter vs. Bare Exposure<br \/>\n2:00 \u2013 Sandy Soils and Aggregates: A Closer Look<br \/>\n2:28 \u2013 Challenges of Managing Perian Sandstone Soils<br \/>\n2:40 \u2013 Soil Protection: Litter, Worms, and Legumes<br \/>\n2:56 \u2013 What Happens When Soil Is Left Exposed<br \/>\n3:16 \u2013 Erosion History and Failed Contour Plowing Solutions<br \/>\n3:36 \u2013 Building Organic Matter: Time vs. Sun Exposure<br \/>\n4:01 \u2013 Best Practice: Keep Sandy Soils Covered<br \/>\n4:13 \u2013 The Risks of Plowing Without Ground Cover<br \/>\n4:19 \u2013 Final Thoughts &#038; Subscribe for More Regenerative Tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Exposed Soil Fails: The \u201cSunday Soil\u201d Problem Explained it&#8217;s Monday and there&#8217;s a new video on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1843506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593415],"tags":[948239,948240,948241,22024,135,576184,330388,950038,950022,950034,22017,950024,950037,49903,527112,126343,416303,950032,950023,406882,255455,11555,950031,950035,950021,950030,950029,950036,5792,877052,950027,387826,790110,950028,950025,950033,950026,950020,9,30213],"class_list":{"0":"post-1843505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2025-summer","8":"tag-2025-summer","9":"tag-2025-summer-anime","10":"tag-948241","11":"tag-agriculture","12":"tag-anime","13":"tag-bees","14":"tag-cattle","15":"tag-cover-crops","16":"tag-cropping","17":"tag-erosion-prevention-farming","18":"tag-farm","19":"tag-farm-learning","20":"tag-farm-soil-problems","21":"tag-farming","22":"tag-fencing","23":"tag-gear","24":"tag-goats","25":"tag-ground-cover-for-soil","26":"tag-hobby-farm","27":"tag-homestead","28":"tag-horticulture","29":"tag-how-to","30":"tag-organic-matter-loss","31":"tag-paddock-management","32":"tag-pasture","33":"tag-protecting-topsoil","34":"tag-regenerative-agriculture","35":"tag-regenerative-grazing","36":"tag-reviews","37":"tag-sand-land-the-series","38":"tag-sandy-soils-farming","39":"tag-sheep","40":"tag-soil-biology","41":"tag-soil-erosion-control","42":"tag-soil-health","43":"tag-soil-management-australia","44":"tag-sunday-soil","45":"tag-tim-thompson","46":"tag-9","47":"tag-30213"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}