ecmn | Angus8335 - 8/5/2025 09:04
So easy money if you had clean corn last year as far as weeds go you never need to spray it again correct? Makes as much sense as to say and I use fungicide and killed the fungus and I won’t ever be back again….Dennis
Fungicide can be a tool.
But you bring up a great point, That we have to use so much herbicides every year. The biggest challenge on my farm with waterhemp is where I spray a bunch of chemicals to not have waterhemp. On the fields that I have cover crops or your hay fields and stuff like that, waterhemp is never an issue
So what is happening in our system that allows weeds to thrive so well. That if we did not use a herbicide they would run our cash crop right over.
We could say the same thing about tillage if we have to go into the field every fall with a disc ripper to "fix compaction". We're never really fixing compaction.
All we ever do is treat symptoms. We never ever fix a problem. Compaction, weeds, disease, pest everything we do is simply reacting to a symptom
So is there a common denominator in the fields that have suppressed immune system plants that are susceptible to disease and pest pressure? fields that are very reliant upon herbicide to control weeds. and needs tillage to keep alleviating compaction? |
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