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SC KS | If we continue to function in ag like we are what is the future hold?
I'm not looking at political heads all though they impact us for sure, but instead if no-till /limited Tillage remain standard but chemicals either quite working or no longer are made then what? Since dicamba beans have come out we've had to increase our status rates 3-4 fold. Pigweeds no longer get any control in Milo. It's only a matter of time that dicamba works in beans or burndown. 2,4-d hasn't worked against palmers for years. If paraquat is removed we are left with liberty and sharpen as killers only until palmers or kochia figure them out. IF the chemical companies come out with anything will it be cost effective and work more than 5 years before they figure "new chem x" out, especially if we only roll 1 out at a time.
Full blown tillage doesn't work. Works until a crop is planted and I doubt we go back to nation wide cultivating. Also not every area gets rain to insure uniform emergence or let alone won't blow all winter.
Man power for an affordable price is already tough to find, btos going to scale back? Corporate farms exit stage left?
Cover crops help, but aren't a stand alone, just like crop rotation.
If yields drop or rotations change to less profitable than tax rates and land values should drop costing us equity and borrowing power.
Just curious. Seriously but for fun too
For perspective we farm in wheat country but have irrigated land. We can grow dryland 30-140 corn, 10-60 beans, 80-140 Milo, and 60 wheat here. Sands will blow even under no till in some Marchs. Nematodes are ripping us apart. 100s all summer long isn't fun or uncommon. | |
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