Posted by L.Fure on August 03, 2018 at 15:13:08 from (68.169.253.213):
In Reply to: Organic Grain Prices posted by Traditional Farmer on August 02, 2018 at 04:23:06:
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My grandfather farmed with no chemicals from the 1920s to mid 50s. Conservation farming came after the 1930s dust bowl years. That involved planting crops following the contour of the hills and rotating where the crops were planted. (corn, hay, oats ) In the mid 50s my dad took over the farm. In the 60s farmers started using atrazine and 2-4-D, but still cultivated the row crops. Modern farms have been moving away from those practices and have been rotating between corn and soybeans with little thought what this is doing to the soil or environment. They have been growing too much of what we don't need and rely on the government to find markets for the glut of corn and soybeans that have flooded those markets. I'm getting off track now, so back to my grandfathers time. Farmers in my grandfathers time didn't have chemicals to rely to control weeds. They used crop rotation and cultivators for their row crops. They grew these crops to feed the animals that made the money on the farm. Their yields weren't anything you see now, but they weren't flooding the markets with corn and soybeans either. Will you get rich farming as they did? Only if you work at it all your life and manage to put some money in the bank on good years. Farming was a lifetime endeavor in those days and you had to stick it out during good years and bad.
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