MN Millennial farmer
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BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I do a little farming myself. I watch sometimes. He comes from a lot of old money so that makes farming really easy. I like most of their equipment. Strongly disagree with some of the stuff he says, and I really hate that seed brand he plants. Overall though he is a very good ambassador for the farming community. Appreciate what he does.
kl9
5 year old buck +
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Broadcasting P and K fertilizer, high plant populations, deep ripping soybean fields in the fall, blocking roads with their equipment (put in a road approach). Money doesnt seem to be much of an object with them. That is not reality for most farmers I know. Things are pretty damn tight right now.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Farmers will still be farmers. Unfortunately this year there are going to be plenty of them that arent farming ground that they "own" any more.
kl9
5 year old buck +
Why the first 2? I’m not trying to argue your points... just curious
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BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Cause I think broadcast fertilizer makes farmers over-apply nutrients, and specifically broadcast P is much more susceptible to cause problems with polluting lakes and streams. If farmers deep rip a soybean field in the fall it is a mushy mess by spring. Then they go out and most likely level it off with the field cultivator, then the coop comes and spreads fertilizer across the top. As soon as they are done you field cultivate again to incorporate the P and K. Only problem is its shallow incorporation. Then after all the tillage you get a heavy rain and the soil and the fertilizer erode into lakes and streams. I see it happen all the time and just cringe. I band my P, K, some S and some micros with the planter 4" deep and run half the rates and get better crops than all of my broadcast neighbors.
High plant populations make seed people rich. They make your plants less healthy and open them up to more diseases. Those disease can spread from field to field. I dont want the neighbors disease blowing into my fields from their sick crops. Some of that stuff stays in the soil for a long time. A perfect example is white mold in soybeans. I routinely plant 6,000-8,000 less corn plants per acre and 40,000 less bean plants per acre than the neighbors and my yields blow right past them.
