southern MN | Hilltop Husker - 3/15/2026 11:53
Does it matter what someone believes if science proves it's wrong?
The Mayans farmed corn far longer than we European descendants have farmed corn. Those farmers believed they needed to make a blood sacrifice to make a good corn crop. Just because something appears to have worked didn't mean it was right
Blood makes a good fertilizer, if you use enough I suppose.
Was at the farm show this weekend, university fella was showing a pile of notill dirt pellets and a pile of regular farmed dirt pellets. Dropped thrm both in water and the regular notill pellet dissolved. This was much better.
I saw the town folk were impressed, the farming folk from this area not so much.
I need to grow corn or beans or whatever on my fields profitably.
Waiting for notill to warm up and dry out in my neighborhood would often have a June planting date. That just doesn’t work.
The experiment is cute, but I need to grow a crop. It doesn’t put any bushels in my wagon.
Put me on a loam soil, or a loamy subsoil, or 200 miles warmer south, and hey we might have something.
Didn’t really appreciate the outsider on my turf misrepresenting my conditions to town folk.
Paul |
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