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nc ks | Covers don't work unless you have recharge type rains and the covers can at that point both help with infiltration and stop excess evaporation. If you grow the cover and don't replace the moisture it used, you are screwing your cash crop. In more arid regions, saving previous residue is key. Covers work better in conjunction with livestock that can graze it for awhile and hopefully you can allow regrowth before termination. It also helps immensely to have living roots under the hooves while grazing vs. just grazing dead residue. Also, if you don't get the recharging rain, at least you gained some revenue with the grazing and have something on the soil that is attached and won't blow away.
If you use covers and other things just because of a small stipend from the government, you'll very likely need it because just following a plan can lose you way more money than the measly tax dollars given to you. I am not anti farmer. I am anti the government throwing out tax dollars to farmers thet could do better themselves with a little self education. If a farmer won't educate himself in this day in age, why should we help bad farmers with tax dollars?
I also know nothing about the cotton areas and their clean tillage, so more power to them if it works for them. | |
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Why do we want to help bad farmers?
