grainbinder - 8/17/2015 06:35


Seems the latest buzz is in cover crops.......something our farm has always done. My dad just rolls his eyes with all of the BTO's that seeded oats this year. For as long as I can remember, if you grew oats around here you were laughed at. Now its the "in" thing to do! My dad was once called a "recreational farmer" by a pioneer seed rep neighbor for planting oats. I think the cover crop thing will rage on a few years and then die out. Not really getting to any thing specific here, just am noting how so many of these farming ideas are a fad and one farmer does it because his neighbor tried it and then it snowballs like a herd of beef headed for a water hole. Just like the IN thing to do this year was plant soybeans first before corn while it was really cold and many of those that did have the worst looking beans over those that were planted in June.


I agree with you. Cover crops on our farm is not new. I've been plowing clover since I was twelve (I'm old now). Fads sometimes pan out. I'll keep trying til I'm dead. I've adapted some "fads". Been really good for me. What I don't do is something because my neighbor does it. The latest thing was "vertical tillage tool" I looked into it. Kept laughing at the bar for about 3 hours.

Oh nuts!! put this in the wrong thread.