We chemical farmers are not innocent by any means. I chose to use all of the chemicals farmers commonly use. Do I like it? No! If I would give up chemicals and use cultivation to handle the weeds my farm would wash down the river like it did years ago before chemicals. I do not want to donate land to the gulf of Mexico so I chose to no till and use chemicals. One practice I adopted to try to reduce the chemicals is to have the drainage stand pipes in the middle of a 60x60 foot brome grass patch. Hopefully the brome grass will filter out a few chemicals and I certainly will not be spraying over the top of the stand pipes. Farming around those grass patches is a time consuming pain in the rear but I feel it is worth the bother. As far as I know I am the only farmer in the county to do this. I also split apply nitrogen, one shot in the spring right before planting and the second shot when the corn is getting tall. I know this will not keep all of the chemicals out of the water but maybe I am reducing the flow a bit.
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