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Earlton Ontario | Now I don't wanna coma across as a tin hat type for these remarks. But is it possible that modern agriculture is due for a leap. Much like our ancestors were witnesses to the hybridization of corn and the onset of Nitrogen fertilizer after the war... Is agriculture coming up against the wall of technogical ill-repute, whereas, no matter how hard we try our advancements in productivity will only be as big as the advancements made getting there. I am in cereal grain country where we see very little in the way of new technology in the way we produce food.... Just getting guys to utilize the old technology appropriately is difficult enough. We really and truly are not getting the leaps in barley and wheat production as the corn guy in Iowa. Some of the old guys here say they got better grain yields in the 70's than they do now. Replicating weather through the use of irrigation, raised beds and plastic covered corn is all fine and dandy, but we see time and again where so many of the benefits of these systems are eaten up in the costs associated to the implementation of them. Weather is the wild card and will always be. So as a young and up and coming farmer, I ask myself the question, "whats it gonna take?" | |
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I am by no means trying to start a war...
