Posted on 09/06/2023 1:10:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The farmer I help in Lawrence county, TN, doesn’t apply any manure or fertilzer more than 4” deep. The second application of liquid nitrogen happens at about 2-3 weeks after crop emergence, and is laid right on top of the ground, next to the plant row on each side. Some of that is surely lost if there’s a heavy downpour.
The real risks are when the mega corporate farm goes bankrupt. Then all the smaller farms are gone. Better to have 500 farms in a county with busy bulk milk tankers running the roads, than two farms in a county with 50 bulk tank semi's parked by the holding tanks.
Yeah, and they chased some politicians after that happened...
That just proves my point. We tolerated the theft, so we got the thieves as leaders.
How did “we” tolerate it?
There is always need for real leadership. When the leaders are the thieves, they actively divide and conquer the people, particularly through certain lies, e.g. Mike Pence on 1/4/21; Ireland has had to swallow bigger lies while not realizing they are lies.
“How did “we” tolerate it?”
The same way you tolerate anything. You make excuses for why doing what would need to be done to rid yourself of the thing is too hard, or you’ll do it later, or you can leave it for someone else to do, etc. Eventually you adapt to the new normal and forget about it, at least most of the time.
And no, venting on the internet, or dreaming “we’ll vote em out next time”, or “the military will save us” doesn’t count as “not tolerating it”.
Yeah, you definitely need to run deeper when the ground has frost, or is just plain cloddy, especially on rolling ground.
When I quit farming in 2001 and went OTR trucking, one of my first feed hopper loads went from ADM Galesburg to a feed mill in Poy Sippi, just south of Waupaca county. Picked up my backhaul of partially processed dead livestock near Berlin at (then) National By-products. That stuff would be ground to powder at NBP’S finishing plant in tiny Lynn Center, IL. Loads from there went primarily to pet food plants around the mid west.
Mega farms are going to be a disaster when the globulleestas pull the plug.
I have looked at old aerial photos of farms on the Vintage Aerial photos website. The old neighborhood (south central Mercer county, IL) has seen about half of the farmsteads vanish since the mid 60s. Hardly any fences any more as well. Sad.
But even those small farms had been heavily reliant on petro fuel since the 30s and 40s. The Amish are ready, maybe not for a massive flood of hungry people leaving the cities looking for food.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.Like I said, a divided and deceived populace will never come together to achieve such goals. And such division always comes from the top. Nobody has been more expert at dividing than the EU. So to stop utter disaster requires leadership, or else things will come to the point like in 1984 where the Party didn’t even fear the notion of the proles rising up against them, deeming them unable to.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
Godless green devils
I’d blame the English. Yes sir. LOL!!
I suppose we could always eat Democrats, but I suspect they’d be as unpalatable then as their actions and ideas are now.
After a population collapse, not that much food is needed.
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