ecmn | NE Ridger - 9/12/2025 10:51
My Grandpa might beg to differ about rust not destroying crops, even back in the 1930's. It was wheat and what he called black rust back then, but it was bad some years. And he never took crop insurance.
As for soybeans aphids, yeah, they weren't in the US until around 2000 and our ecosystem here has adapted to them. They're here, you can find them if you look hard enough, but they're never a problem. Not since 2008 or so.
Corn rootworm weren't a problem before BT corn? Say what now? Did you farm before Bt corn? We didn't use furdan for the fun of it back then!!
If we have such healthy plants today and such healthy soil today, how good of crop could you grow without herbicide, fungicide and insecticide?
Did I say none of this stuff existed before?
I did say in the past diseases and insects were randomly devastating. Scroll up. It's right there.
You use that chemical in early corn rootworm days and did it work? So why are you not using it now? What changed?
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