Posted by Bruce from Can. on June 28, 2020 at 06:52:13 from (74.12.71.100):
In Reply to: Fallow Land posted by John in La on June 28, 2020 at 06:00:06:
Not much if any land is ever left fallow here in South Central Ontario. Livestock farming is giving way to row crops. And livestock farmers that are left, are nearly all total confinement operations. You just don’t see cattle on pasture if the ground cans grow crops. It is just economics . One acre can grow say 15-20 tons of corn silage, now way could it provide that tonnage of forage in pasture. Here we mostly see 3 crop rotation taking over on good land. Corn , followed by beans followed by wheat. Hay is mostly grown by Dairy farmers. While there were once many cow calf farmers also growing hay, the number of cow calf farms has dropped like a stone since the money has gone out of the business, the age of the farmers has timed them out, while the land prices have gone through the roof. The only way you can run a cow calf operation here is to be able to rent marginal land. And all marginal land is being bought up by investors, cleared and drained and rented to cash crop farmers. Farming has changed during my lifetime. And soon , most people will just be surfs once again. Tenant farmers beholding to wealthy landlords. Many from foreign lands like China
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