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Concordia,Kansas | I`m in North Central Kansas, right by the Nebraska border. A lot of the fields we have been working this week are in the "core" of our farm, land that was my granddad`s, Dad`s, and now mine. It`s mostly Hastings silt loam, pulls hard but is some of the better dirt in our country. I`ve rode every inch of it my whole life and know it to be ALOT better ground than it`s showing right now. Today I was noticing that it seems to be hard and blocky, you can take a chunk from anywhere in the field (good or bad) and you have to use both hands to break it up.
Last fall I was cussing my drills that I wasn`t getting the stand of wheat I wanted. I`m thinking now that it was more the soil than the drill. The places that I didn`t get a good stand are so hard that we are having to disk them twice, can`t get them to penetrate the first time over. The organic matter is over 4% in these fields. I try to keep the fertility as high as I can afford. The PH is a little low, but not bad for this part of the world.
We got rain today again. There is just a few hundred acres left to disk the first time. We had to get it covered as fast as possible, the weeds are out of control. I think I`ll take off tomorrow and try and find a set of plows so we can start back over it again. I want to turn the rest of the straw under and try and get some tilth back into the soil.
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Anyone else concerned about Glyphosate?
