Friday Crop Report!

[Braveheart]

Oh my Forage. I must be so alone. You tell me I have no farmer friends. The truth is, Ottawa didn't want me around either. I was hard on them. Railroads despised me. The CWB certainly hated me. Why you ask? Because I was/am an advocate for farmers and the freedoms they need to run their farms like a business and enjoy the use of their own property.

Cultivate black if you want. Your farm, your business. Let it blow, wash, fritter away, destroy organic matter, I don't care. Your heirs might when your topsoil is in a fence line or ditch and you're rotting in a hole. Your heirs might wonder why Grandpa gave so much money to petroleum companies for fuel instead of leaving more in the estate.

Re NFU vs ISIS, they both look back not forward. The NFU and Sask Wheat Pool held back agriculture in Western Canada for decades. Where do we send the bill? Can any of them afford to pay?

[sumdumguy]

We are all looking for viable solutions to the question, "how am I going to move my production with a buck left in it for my efforts?" The dilemma is common to all producers, marketers, brokers, processors ..... But for some its easier than for others because they are less dependant on service providers for transportation. As in Alberta versus Saskatchewan. The Crow is gone, that's a fact, but that was in 1994. What has government done to ensure that our grain will move when it has to? The penalties are a joke. The railways are just laughing at " $100,000 a day, no let's make that $100,000 a week ... Or maybe never.

[sumdumguy]

Braveheart, I would like to compare your petroleum, chemical bill to mine when I seeded with a discer and sprayed once. You ought to just do that comparison before you blow your horn about how low your inputs are now.

[Braveheart]

Our inputs aren't low! But, if you seeded with a discer here and sprayed once, you would have quack grass right up to your Victoria Secrets undies.

But, you miss the point. Tillage doesn't work for ME. If it works for YOU, then do it. I don't care. It's your farm. Do with it what you wish. We all will live with the consequences of our actions. Something to do with Fathers/Sons and sins revisited will come into play.

[SASKFARMER3]

Brave 30 years of no till is ending this fall yes it works but now I see other problems and my tillage experiment works! Canola tilled lightly vs heavy wheat straw 12 higher! Never going back to and etc but extream wet takes extreme changes!

[Braveheart]

Do what you need to do.

[SASKFARMER3]

Soil needs certain things and after 30 years and extreme wet their homing to bite us in the ass on the black zone!

[SASKFARMER3]

If it's wet phone a Manitoban they will explain why you fall till

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

You stated

Cultivate black if you want. Your farm, your business. Let it blow, wash, fritter away, destroy organic matter, I don't care. Your heirs might when your topsoil is in a fence line or ditch and you're rotting in a hole. Your heirs might wonder why Grandpa gave so much money to petroleum companies for fuel instead of leaving more in the estate.


Just wondering how you came to the assumption that this is a farming practice used on my farm? Please explain?

[Braveheart]

I don't know what you do, and don't care.

[farmaholic]

Who the hell one here talked about the extremes? And they are absolutely right. You either adapt to the changes around you or struggle doing things that don't work. Flexibility is key. Verticle tillage ISN'T the old method of intensive summerfallowing. Simply mixing the previous crops residue with a bit of soil and aerating a wee bit.

We are not as wet as some areas and will continue the no till method. Is it contributing to disease? I believe so. But environmental conditions "during" the growing season aee probably the biggest culprit.

[blackpowder]

Some folk sure are testy. The NFU comments always bring out the howls. The Crow and _ _ _ absolutely had to go, and 30 years too late. Yes the govt could have handled it better. Problems with a democracy I suspect.
Listening to Boehm I marvel at who the hell he's representing.