If they’re marbles, he’s lost em.
I think they’re Go pieces.
On pesticide thread BTT
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050213/posts?page=1#1
A couple interesting comments:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050213/posts?page=22#22
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I checked with our ag rep at church, and he said you can’t cut the application rate and still get a reasonable result.
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It depends. Soils are “very high” in nutrients. there are some reserves. If you are selling you will always say the above.
Perceived risky so no one skips fertilizer.
During the Ag crises in the 80’s I had two farmers put on no fertilizers. One didn’t put fert on because int rates were high. two years of no fert. decent yields but extremely profitable and took him out of debt. It was a farm he had farmed for a long time and knew well.
The other situation was a newly acquired rented farm and history not known and did not work out as well.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050213/posts?page=31#31
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“Ag crisis in the 80’s”
I remember they were having fertilizer shortages then. The word was you could skip fertilizer because there was residual fertilizer in the soil.
But now we are in everything must be fearful mode.
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