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ecmn | yes we need to change our system of growing crops. but what crops we grow are dictated by supply and demand.
i believe the other HUGE reason we need to change is because i fear gov. regulations coming down hard on us, might as well use now to figure out how to work more with less.
look at this speaker, look at youtube, unlimited number of videos putting down the farmer. they see BTO spreading fertilizer by the semi load. they have no clue but they are the ones that vote poeple into office, they are the ones that call the state pollution agency, like it or not we have to deal with these people.
biological farming is the long term way of survival. cover crops, cattle, diversity, always having something growing, limited tillage, feed the soil first. produce quality soil and you will get quality crops.
economics?? really, talk to the guys rotating cattle and cover crops raising 2$ a bushel investment corn. no purchased inputs and yeilds that are as good as the area can raise. hows 120's bpa corn in north central ND on 12" of annual rain, no purchased inputs. how's growing OM at amazing rates.
before modern agriculture we had high OM. now we have single digit numbers and they are getting lower with each pass of a moldboard plow and heavy disking.
do what you want your going to anyhow but we need to evaluate how we are doing stuff. | |
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"It's time to rethink America's corn system"
