Allow me be the first to comment with an Ag degree......BU!!SH!T.
Yes Bull Shit
A modern dat grapes of wrath?
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.
“Allow me be the first to comment with an Ag degree......BU!!SH!T.”
This below is what happened to my area of the country. Our local farmers need to use more fertilizers and chemicals every year.
Plowing and precipitation lead rich topsoil to slowly creep downhill, leaving thin, carbon-poor soil uphill.
Yup. The article does mention no-till in a couple of spots, but just barely. Lo-till/no-kill, of course, goes hand in glove with Roundup ready, GMO varieties, which the luddite left hate with a passion. The enviros don’t really want no-till farming. They want no farming, period. They want us to get our food from the same magic unicorns that they think will produce our energy.
2nD That that BS
I thought the majority of corn and soybean crops were grown using no-till farming?
My now deceased brother-in-law is from Honduras and his family there had several sugar cane plantations. After his father died many decades ago, much of the properties were taken over by the government due to non payment of taxes. The taxes weren't paid because the father was the only one who conducted the primitive family business......
Another property managed by his brother Carlos was taken over by armed campesinos but only after Carlos shot and killed 12 of them then had to flee the country.
Flash forward, what was left of the properties was farmed by Pepe, my brother-in-law's brother. No education whatsoever but a brilliant sugar cane farmer whose annual productions far surpassed those of other cane plantations........
Yea, yields are really on their way down, lol! Land that grew 75 bushel corn in a good year now grows 175 bu corn. That’s how the soil has been degraded in the last 50 years.
Yep. Total crock of sh__.
Geez, ya beat me to it!!
And me with only a geology degree!