Posted by MarkB_MI on November 20, 2012 at 17:17:35 from (75.219.121.83):
In Reply to: Re: dust bowl posted by Traditional Farmer on November 20, 2012 at 16:10:46:
What is your point? Are you suggesting that High Plains farmers change their farming practices in hopes that next year the earth will shift on its axis and turn eastern Colorado into a tropical rain forest?
I just pulled some stats off the USDA's NASS database for Yuma County, Colorado. Here are the dryland corn acreage yields since 1965:
What happened between 1965 and 2011 to cause non-irrigated corn yields to triple? Did three times as much rain fall in 2011 as 1965? No, but farming practices changed radically to make the most of the limited rainfall. And those figures above don't reflect the fact that dryland farmers were getting one crop every two years 30 years ago, but now get two crops every three years.
Need I mention that much of the research into no-till farming that made this all possible was funded by the US taxpayer?
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