Erik Ks farmer: BACK off on the attitude buddy. Many of us till our ground because notill does not work for us. You have just planted that no till crop. That does not make you a real life expert on no till. No till is easy as heck to plant. Just go out and drive around pulling your planter. Then just go out and drive around some more spraying a bunch of chemicals on. Seems pretty simple. BIG question here??? Possible soil savings verses using a lot of chemicals. Which is safer in the long term????
The reason I say possible soil saving is that I farm ground that you would be scared to drive a tractor on. I have contour strips, grass water ways, terraces, cossy dikes with stand pipes drains. I have little erosion. The notill guys that farm the whole field with out the erosion controls I have loss more soil. They have ditches form in one place that you can bury a car in.
Now the hard part. What is your yield going to be this year?? How about next year?? Then how do you handle the manure that your livestock is going to produce??
I started notilling before you where born. I did it for five years straight because all the experts told me that it would take that long for my yields to get back up. Well in the sixth year I could not stand the losses any longer. Broke the chisel plow out worked all of the corn ground. Fertilized the same as when I was notilling. Had a forty bushel yield jump!!!!
Two years after quiting the notill corn I broke the 200 bushel mark on my corn. This was in 1985. I have notill some corn into bean stubble since then but never corn on corn. I notill most of my soybeans.
So I wish you luck on your crop. Just you remember what works on the experts land and your neighbor's land may not work on your land.
As for the chemicals. I use them because I have to produce the crop at a competitive cost. DO I like using them??? NO!!! I am not convinced that the modern production agriculture we do today is going to be good for the long term.
I have a sister that even Roundup will put in the hospital. She gets a breath of almost any chemical and she can't breathe. That is in the house with the windows closed. She was riding with me down the road one day. We passed the county spraying the road ditch. We where going 55 mph with the AC on. In about five minutes she was having trouble getting a breathe of air. She was able to use some of the meds she carries and did not have to go to the hospital. I know her problems are very rare. Do we know what the long term effect will be on the rest of us??? Modern chemicals have only been used for about sixty years. No one knows the long term effects for sure yet.
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