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Lloyd Murdock

Professor Emeritus and Extension Soils Specialist at the University of Kentucky, known for no-till research and fragipan remediation with annual ryegrass.

Oct 15, 2026

3:51
You don't? [laughs]
3:54
Yeah.
3:54
They tell me that, uh, you know, that we had all kinds of, um, glaciers and things like that and, and they protruded all the way down into almost the Ohio River.
4:04
In fact, the Ohio River, uh, you know, um, may have been formed by the fact that you had to block it.
4:11
You block the, uh, all the, all the rivers in Kentucky run north, and you had that big, uh, ice, uh, mountain of ice come down, and it blocked the, the, uh, exits of the rivers going north.
4:24
And so they had to break over and go a different way.
4:27
And so the Oh- this Ohio River, uh, allowed, allowed that to happen.

8 MINS LATER

12:39
So anyway, I, I suppose my question is, what are the, what are the results that you've been observing from annual ryegrass? How rapidly is, uh, how rapidly is soil changing, and how is it remediating fragipan?

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