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ecmn | There will always be disease, weed and pest pressure. That's nature. We've bought into a pharmaceutical system of farming. We've experienced resistance/ tolerance and researches warning us that some of these fungal pathogens very soon might have resistance/tolerance.
What if we could farm in a system that a majority of years you didn't even need to use a fungicide /insecticide? What if on a a weird year, like 1 out of 10, you get a Southern rust or pest issue that blows way up, And just one pass of an application is very successful because the plant was already doing a lot of the work? And even if without the chemical, the damage to the crop was minimal. I personally could live with that.
There is no silver bullet. There is no just change one thing. Farming under a specific title " organic" " no-till".. isn't an automatic healthy crop
Full tillage of bare soil: collapses the soil structure, leaving the soil vulnerable to erosions, compaction, deprived of air infiltration, poor nutrient cycling. Leads to soil that is very dependent upon tillage and inputs for the plant to thrive, perfect environment for weeds disease and pests
A nutrient program that is based on high volume applications of high salt low quality at the wrong time:
This gives us a flush of nutrients that disconnects the plant from biology, suppresses biology, adds to the collapse of soil structure, perfect environment for weeds , And builds soft cell plants that are susceptible to disease and insect
No diversity/ bare dirt. a corn and soybean rotation is not diversity: deprives the soil of life, has no resilience, his very dependent upon the weather and inputs. Becomes a great host for weeds, disease and insects.
The cattle and grasses have left the landscape.
The prairie grass is built the beautiful soil, The grass and the cattle built soil that was highly functioning, nutrient cycling, drought and flood tolerant, resistant to erosion and compaction. Removing them build a great environment for weeds, disease pest
Farming pharmaceutically versus biological. Very reactive system that relies upon a chemical to deal with a biological. Never look for the cause. Always treating symptoms
GMO traits: bred in some defense for specific things, very difficult to get a modern hybrid to become self reliant.
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Southern Rust End Game
