West Union, IOWA FLOLO Farm 52175 | Usafarmer.... I think you'd be surprised how many people by into "systems" and how few farmers have a shovel......
$7 corn seems to have made allot of GOOD farmers..... $2-3 corn, will show how the real farmers are and those that can actually manage to control what they have to work with....
I can see the value of both sides, enough that I'm scratching my head more then ever. A couple yrs ago, NRCS came out to pull some soil health test...... They seen something really cool, and I really don't think any of them expected to see what they saw..... Got told that day.....this can't be, I must do things I do...... My corn on corn StripTill was out performing native prairie, in the worst spot.
Since then, I've been on a quest to figure out what is going on..... And it's really wild, cause I have the greenhouse compare notes to....so I can see the extremes on both sides.
Simple answer, I barely know what going on on my farm..... How can I tell what's going on on somebody else's.....
The riddle that still blows my mind..... In the greenhouse..... For every ton of fertilizer hauled in, they haul out 3500# of dry mater basis produce.....and I'd guesstamate another 3500# of dry matter waste..... Know yes, we pump allot of water...... But 5500# worth of dry matter difference is pulling allot from the air and water....
With that all said, I can see the value and need to up our conservation efforts.....scratching my head....
But here's the efforts I'm going too
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