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re: Banning Modern Agriculture and High Crop Yields?
Posted on 7/25/22 at 7:20 pm to notsince98
Posted on 7/25/22 at 7:20 pm to notsince98
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30+years of studies over millions of acres.
Link one that's has been done over 1000+ acres.
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Posted on 7/25/22 at 7:53 pm to geauxbrown
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You know what else takes off? Weeds
Yup. We lease 15 acres to BASF for cotton research. They have varieties in these plots that are not resistant to Roundup so we can’t spray Roundup over the top of the entire plot.
They send an intern out there spraying under the cotton in the test plot all the damn time. I guarantee he has put more hours in than our sprayer has put in applying Roundup over the top of the other 1625 acres of cotton we are growing.
This isn’t even organic. This is just cotton without a herbicide trait package.
I believe that there can be a legitimate discussion about using cover crops and reducing tillage to help reduce the use of herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers.
We’re actually doing it with success on our farm. The whole saving the planet angle is cute and all, but we’re more concerned with improving margins, which is exactly what we’re doing.
Organic farming is an unsustainable joke, and “non-gmo” isn’t much less of a sham.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 8:00 pm to prostyleoffensetime
if basf is an ethylene producer, there interest is liability. Ethylene is a cotton plant growth promotor at the expense of the cotton boll. ?Known since the 70's
Posted on 7/25/22 at 8:05 pm to notsince98
bullshite put down the pipe.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 8:51 pm to deltaland
Yea, like the dust bowl didn’t happen. It’s like we are talking to 15 year olds
Posted on 7/25/22 at 9:52 pm to prostyleoffensetime
Gmo kicks arse and is more "green" and efficient than any organic bullshite. And as far as fresh market stuff goes, the only GMO stuff that is worth a shite is sweet corn, in our area at least
Posted on 7/25/22 at 11:41 pm to notsince98
No way is this true. Organic almost always requires tillage and that allows soil erosion. Farmers use practices that maximize profits, long term.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 11:58 pm to The Maj
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Organic farming has been skyrocketing because people and farmers figured out they could get more money for their product from people willing to pay for "organic"... They are not moving that direction because yields are higher...
What I have seen in rural WI is the "organic" farmers are the guys trying to make their little 140-160 acre family farms economically feasible in today's world.
Know what the guys running 600+ dairy herds don't do?
Organic farm.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 7:00 am to notsince98
glyphosate replaced atrazine for such reasons.
Atrazine on rice means no crawfish in that rice field, just sayin...
Atrazine on rice means no crawfish in that rice field, just sayin...
Posted on 7/26/22 at 7:04 am to notsince98
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There are 30+years of studies showing organic farming over time produces higher yields than "commercial." There are initial reductions when a change is made but as the soil becomes re-stabilized, yields take off.
You’re so amazingly full of shite it’s not even funny.
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