Northeast, Nebraska | centralmnangus - 6/15/2025 12:09
So I had to run to town this morning.. personally I don’t do any of that. One post pass of roundup, I did no till some corn so may have to come back with a second pass before the rows close up. I am in no way a greeny, hipster, environmentalist. I was just thinking every year there seems to be more of struggle for some folks pressure wise whether it be weeds, diseases, or bugs. By golly the chemical companies sure have a new chemical that will take care of it.
My question is how is this any different than the pharmaceutical industry?? There’s always a new drug that will cure the latest problem but we as people never truly are healthier. I have a suspicion the soil is the same way… why aren’t we looking at reducing the chemical load it’s taking and looking for natural or even in general different ways to combat the issues??? Is chasing higher yields really cost effective long term if the ground is getting weak and we are wearing out equipment to do so??
I’m sure I’m wrong and have no idea what I’m talking about… but I see it with livestock… and seeing it with the soil, nature seems to have a way of taking care of itself why aren’t we following along instead of spending money to fight it
I agree with you 100%. I have seen it personally. They sell you a product and then a couple of years later, it makes another problem and then they have a solution for that problem. Ask yourself, why are we seeing more and more diseases and more herbicide resistant weeds? The main reason is we have decreased or eliminated the natural biology in the soil. Rebuild the biology and a lot of this will go away. We have successfully stopped white mold and southern rust using our biological, which is just a bunch of microbes. We are going to get some guys to try it against tar spot this year as well. We haven't seen tar spot in our area except for late last year so we haven't been able to test it, but if you put the biology back in the soil, weeds will be weaker and easier to kill and diseases will slowly become less of a problem. I will be posting videos of this on my tiktok and youtube when we get to that point in the growing season for those of you following me. |
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