DeereMan97 - 2/28/2024 20:52

In some areas, the topsoil is already gone. I’ve personally been on farms that have yellow clay exposed on the hillsides and 6’ of topsoil in the low areas of the farm. Usually those pieces have no terraces/tile/structures and are being disked regularly. I know of one farm that had a brand new fence put in back in the 70’s for cattle and today only 1 strand of the fence is still visible due to erosion moving soil down the hill.

Will we still have topsoil in 60 years? Yes, that’s about the same as global warming activists saying we should’ve all died 20 years ago, and then today, and now it’s 20 years from now.

All that to say, we have to change our practices on a national scale. This whole idea of farming fence row to fence row and more and more yield does nothing besides damage the ground, suppress commodity prices, and make farming into a more corporate model than a individualist/community model.

Bigger, faster, more profit, more efficient.. and for what? More money to buy ever increasingly expensive inputs/equipment/elevator legs? Seems like a never ending hamster wheel the way it has been for the last 40-50 years