| nextBTO - 8/2/2013 07:44 Unless I had serious terracing and tile to install on land I own, PP to me is not an option. Landlords dont like it, it not good for the ground IMO I know not always true but alot of guys around here that went PP were up at the coop drinking coffee talking negatively about the guys trying to get it done in less than perfect conditions..
I am in South Central Iowa and I do not have a landlord, and I put tile in every year. Only a moron would have gone iinto these fields this Spring where we had over 26 inches of rain, and try to run in a crop. But . . . when you are a tenant, WTF do you care about creating soil conditions that will be a problem for years.
I agree with you about the guys at the Coop in SC Iowa, they are a group of whiners I call them the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" crowd. They love their new PU trucks, just pull into the SC Coop any morning as they are sitting there loafing and whining. Serious farmers do not have time to associate with these nimrods, who find themselves renting ground instead of owning it.
If you own your land, and your equipment, sometimes (especially in SC Iowa) it is better to just leave the equipment in the shed, and disk down the weeds on those fields that were prevent plant. Most of the land I put into Prevent Plant with the PT10 option, was river bottom that had four feet of water on it numerous times from heavy rains and saturated ground in the area late this Spring. If you are from SC Iowa then you remember those wet conditions. I have fields of corn in my area only knee high right now, and on those acres that did not qualify for PP corn, they went ahead and were running in beans in July.
That is one of the major reasons for not renting to tenants, they give a rats ass about your farmland plus they are driven to get things in the ground when conditions are not right just to get the higher indemnity that goes with having ground planted. Only dumb asses mud crops in, or work ground when it is too wet.
SC Iowa is Kamakazie farming country, it tends to make BTO's int LTO's, and if you cannot live with two good crops every five years, then you have yet to learn how the game is played down there. Just sayin . . . John |
The smart guys that PP'd
