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South Texas | No it's not a joke, and some of us live on the edges of the dust bowl. Although not "here", some areas of Texas are very much farmed this way. It's pure survival/economics. Why spend money on fertilizer if it's never going to come up? To me, this is one of the biggest problems with our crop insurance program - forcing the farmer to plant $300 corn seed or cotton seed by some magical date deadline. Again, nobody close to me farms this way - spent plenty of money on a crop that isn't looking so good right now. Fully fertilized, sprayed, all inputs in. However, i totally understand those areas that do, and a lingering 3 year drought is sure pushing that direction.
Edit - depending where you're from, we may have very different definations of the word "plow". Via NAT, i've learned that a "plow" is a very specific item in the midwest. Down here, just about anything you hook behind a tractor that doesn't cut grass is a plow. I'm "plowing" some milo this week with a Deere 886 cultivator.
Edited by brangus02 3/30/2013 22:37
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Just plow and plant
