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Iowa topsoil loss

In my pea brain, I would love to get to a world where herbicide use was minimized, but the lose of topsoil and resulting erosion is a bigger issue. Most ground around me won’t grow a yield worth planting without so many inputs that is pretty much an artificial environment. That doesn’t seem...

I actually started that one and didn’t finish. I’m giving Grant a hard time. I think he does some great stuff. He’s also a bit of a salesman too though.

I have been under the impression that breaking ground encourages seed that has been laying dormant to germinate. I have definitely seen people say no till requires less weed management.

You and me both! I have dang sure looked but I guess not hard enough. I have plans for this to be the last year. I’ll plant the flatter parts for large food plots and let the rest turn to some from of crp type ground, though not enrolled in any program. It’s only 60 acres and it’s a bit of a...

That’s from my row crop fields. It’s bad, the whole field just washes away. I don’t maintain that but no the farmer doesn’t use a crimper.

From a landowner’s standpoint, I’ll take those compared to what my fields looked like all winter!

The amalgamation of farming scares and saddens me. But to this topic, I am a passive novice wannabe! I enjoy learning about ag but I have no horse in the race. I will say the erosion in my part of the world, in particular my property, infuriates me. So much so the end is near for row cropping...

Don’t tell grant woods!

Absolutely. Tons of benefits to no till. I was just surprised about the herbicide aspect because i feel like that is used as a pro of no till.

https://www.farmprogress.com/crops/is-no-till-farming-more-profitable- Seems logical about no till being the most profitable but it was interesting to see that herbicide cost wasn’t reduced. A hypothesis could be made the breaking ground doesn’t produce any more weeds than no till.

I’ve had two surveys done. Onx was off by 15 acres on one and 20 on another. Unreliable at best

The would chap my ass. Your world doesn’t need to be inconvenienced cause he wants to make money. If you were a tree farmer would he be cool with you planting several feet into his property? Id run some kind of cheap fence down the line I guess.

I’ve hunted that habitat type swamp speaks of. I had the opposite observation. The carrying capacity was so low because it was very poor habitat. Mainly a monoculture of pine production and at best a couple years of cutover to feed a few deer on what survived the aerial nuking before the pines...

I’m not advocating for Iowans to ever let nonresident rules change trust me! There need to be “the last great place” as Montana use to claim. It’s like the Alaskan wilderness, I doubt I’ll ever hunt it, but I love to know it’s there. Im just saying I can see a nonresidents issue with it but...

Right…but I hate to say the obvious part out loud, but your neck of the woods is poor from a nutritional standpoint. it’s not a genetic problem, it’s a nutrition problem. You could bring a whole herd of Iowa deer down and they will regress to the nutrition. A secret a lot of guys in the Eastern...

I can buy that to an extent. I’m not an expert on either ar or ia regs but from what little I know I’d say they have a dual mandate. Protect the herd and produce mature bucks. They seem to go hand in hand given the cover limitations you mention. I think Iowa recognizes what it has and is so far...

Sorry what’s your take? They kill too many deer?

It’s high, especially for no infrastructure but I think there’s a premium getting attached to “larger” tracts in high quality areas. They are the true unicorns in today’s market. If someone wants a decent sized farm it’s easier to pay a premium than to try to piece together smaller tracts.