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EC Nebraska | loran - 12/25/2015 12:00
Here's something controversial that'll kill the rest of the day.....and stimulate some conversation
Make sure to watch the whole series....
https://youtu.be/qXBIxFAxtlQ
I hate the hyperbole. Groundwater has nitrates, atrazine, AND roundup? Really? You couldn't just say nitrates and atrazine and stop there? You HAD to mention the trigger word roundup? Even tho glyphosate isn't going to leach into groundwater in any kind of biologically significant levels. And nitrates in our drinking water is a problem for us, yes. I agree completely. But that doesn't mean that it's bad for our crops. Nitrates in our irrigation water isn't a problem unless it's REALLY high. And on corn it's not a problem, period. So cut the bull and stick to the real stuff. There's plenty of it to talk about, why mix in the crap?
And all we have to do is build our nutritional "castle walls" and no disease or insects will ever attack our crops? Bull. Healthy crops can withstand insects and diseases better than starving crops, yes, but why can't you stop there?
And where did this list of 42 essential elements for plant growth come from? I've never seen a list that long, and even the lists of 20 or so are pretty hard to show in a field. Nickel is essential for legumes, but there probably isn't an agricultural field in North America that's deficient in it.
I'll finish the series, and I really wish more farmers would understand the things she's saying, but it's hard when you've got to filter out the junk.
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strip till fertilizer savings??
