Re: farming in the 1950s and 1960s ?

Posted by Texasmark1 on April 17, 2021 at 17:22:37 from (75.107.60.145):

In Reply to: farming in the 1950s and 1960s ? posted by swindave on April 16, 2021 at 08:08:23:

Well Cotton was king in Texas for 50 years at least. In the mid 60's businessmen and farmers realized that you cain't keep mining nutrients out of the soil without putting something back. These folks teamed with Ag. Research Scientists from Texas A &M College (TAMU today) and formed the Agricultural Research Station at Renner.....name of the Texas town where it is (still) located.... today, totally surrounded by the city of Plano, Tx.

The published workings gave farmers a hard bound reference manual (I have one) for what works and what doesn't in Ag. which helped immensely in improving crop production and efficiency.

Today these small Cotton growing/shipping stations are nothing more than a wide place in the road but still bear the marks of Cotton, bale wagons, trailers, railroad sidings, bale shipping sheds along the tracks, gin mills and such. Some of the soil has recovered and a lot hasn't. Big Ag. comes in with the chemicals and heavy equipment and can make the Blacklands (referencing Houston Black Clay) known for it ability to hold moisture for hot, dry, summer Cotton crops very productive...have no idea as to the return on the investment. It's a bear to farm when it isn't in the mood. In the mood..........it's sweet! I forget the stats, but Texas Blacklands were a big player in Cotton production worldwide back in those days. Today it's crop rotation with wheat, cotton, and milo or corn...mostly corn.

Wheat is a good cover crop to clean up a nasty field. Next door wasn't farmed for 20 years and was a weed mess. Place sells, buyer needed it farmed, BTO leases it, comes in, discs a couple of times, planted wheat with some liquid in tanks on the tractor, like in December..imagine fertilizer and pre-emergent. Today plants (like a stem every half an inch) are some 15-18 tall, seed heads are already starting to form, solid deep green, smooth as a green blanket...beautiful.

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