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easymoney
Posted 1/20/2019 08:23 (#7258069 - in reply to #7258027)
Subject: RE: There is info on cover crop economics


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Loran don't hold back. the return on covers is very quick. for us 30 % less acres needed for cattle vs old grass pastures, in our area lot cow calf is a losing money issue. grazing cows with covers is a money maker.

immediately parking tillage, that is a huge expense, also tillage gives us more drought issues, less purchased inputs, less need for insecticide and herbicide and fungicide. more run off issues, SCN is from conventional farming, white mold can be fixed with soil health practices. the no till vs till argument is old and no longer even an argument. soil health is the new argument and many levels of it exist. once you get covers figured out they will fix the issues with no till and full till.

I went from moldboard plow to intercropping or relay cropping in a matter of years. think of the revenue a guy can get if you start to think about farming soil herd and sunlight. in front of or behind cash crop we can grow a grass crop for sale or feed, we can grow a grain with our soybeans.

conventional tillage is done. just a matter of time before its regulated to death.

how many of us get 30" or more a year and still have to worry about drought? yet some guys get 10" a year and after decades of soil health are making a good crop on 10". look at all the fear of spring time combine up. how are we going to get N ahead of the planter? how are we going to get tillage done in time? how can we plant a crop without warming and drying the soil first? what if its a wet cold spring how about all the prevent plant worry?


Edited by easymoney 1/20/2019 08:27
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