Posted on 04/15/2021 11:31:07 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Allow me be the first to comment with an Ag degree......BU!!SH!T.
So, untold billions of ton of topsoil just vanished?
Or, are farmers in the cornbelt now paying the price of not using the “crop rotation” plan that has been popular in the midwest for over 100 years?
There is a reason you don’t plant corn in the same field, year after year.
http://cnrc.agron.iastate.edu/
Yes Bull Shit
A modern dat grapes of wrath?
This is not a problem.
Remember, “Better life through Chemicals”....or something.
I'm no farmer, but seems to me that the corn goes in one of the cow and out the other end. You put that back where came and it builds up over time. You also grow soy to put nitrogen back into the soil.
Seems like I’ve been reading this same article for the last 47 years...
But, but, it's mandated and subsidized by the Government to make Gasoline less Efficient and more Polluting, and we must obey.
I know the area he is talking about.
The soil was always pretty bad. They used to ship old hay bails down for compost.
Funny thing is I live in east central Iowa, in a place that was farmed for hundreds of years. Top soil is pretty good.
I will say the bits of prairie here are there is pretty interesting. Davenport has some original prairie in the Fairmount Cemetery, and we volunteer there. Digging made me appreciate why sod houses were a thing. The roots were amazing.
Yep! Certified BS.
On our family farm in Wisconsin, we rotated CORN-—Alfalfa-—GREEN PEAS FOR DEL MONTE-—Oats.
Corn farmers typically don’t raise cows anymore.
And there are places in West Texas that went from red dirt to black because of cattle.
I remember we were losing an inch of topsoil a year, back in the 1970's.
Well, we still have lots left, obviously. And where exactly is it going, since we haven't had a dustbowl?
The church of perpetual panic, still at it 50 years later.
No more food for fuel
Biblical Sabbaths might have helped the land.
It's why my field is no-till and carefully controlled for erosion. The US is light years ahead of most countries in care for our soil.
Two pull quotes:
“But now it’s at the point where it could use more funding and some improvement.”
“We need a government program that would pay farmers not to farm. We need incentives and regulation.”
Always the case—more money, laws and government.
Pay farmers to sit on their sofa. How does that translate at the produce isle?
In Wisconsin, cow manure is NO LONGER ALLOWED to be put back onto the land. It is put into tanks as slurry & trucked AWAY from the farm...... INSANITY
Don’t forget the corn lobby’s addiction to pushing corn syzurp
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