Re: beetles

Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 20, 2003 at 03:11:20 from (216.208.58.121):

In Reply to: beetles posted by Ray on November 19, 2003 at 19:18:52:

Ray: Your beetles are indeed a strain of lady bug. The reason they start to bother you in late fall is as the soybeans are ripened, frosted or harvested they run out of food, being the aphids on the soybeans. Are they winning the war against aphids on soybeans? Who knows for sure at this point. Ask yourself what would be the effects on your lifestyle if enough chemical was applied to soybeans across North America, to do the job?

Remember when farmers tried to chase down atrazine resistent weeds with atrazine.

I remember an old dairy farmer in my home town, dairy barn inspectors were always after him about two items; spiders and their cobwebs in his tie stall barn and not having a screen door on his milk room. His argument was that every time he entered or exited the milk room the screen door would have to be opened. Further because of his spiders and their webs he had away less flies than most farms. I've been there and there were never flies in his milk room.

Just may be if we re think this whole corn to beans to wheat rotation and the real cost, they may not be so profitable. There might be a better way, with more crops in that rotation. When 50% of this land was in grassland, our rivers weren't brown with silt. You could see the river bed and even count the fish.

Hasen't progress been wonderful.

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