Its not about marketing

[wd9]

Fun eh posting a pic?

Some land should also just not be farmed.
Left in grass, bush, whatever.

[pourfarmer]

ok one more try:

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[wd9]

I know i've never got anywhere with this
before on Agriville, but if you're taking
60 bu of wheat off the land and think a
crop of alfalfa will replace those
nutrients you're sadly mistaken.

the land is a bank, and organic farming
is like a 15 year old with a visa card.
Overdraft!

[pourfarmer]

to get that to work i had to widen the text box i was typing my
reply into so the HTML link was all on one line. I also removed a
whole bunch of html formatting and just took the part that started
with IMG SRC=

Hope that helps until they decide to upgrade this forum software

[pourfarmer]

The 60bu wheat crop was on a inoculated
sweet clover plow down and summer
fallowed for the remainder of the year.
The land was alfalfa 2 years previous to
the clover plow down, with peas then
oats then sweet clover and finally wheat
before back into alfalfa.. Products like
jumpstart seem to help certain nutrient
replenishment. I try to keep a close eye
on soil test and try to remedy any
nutrient deficiencies with organic
methods, so far have been pretty
successful... its not easy and/or
sometime not cheap but there is a wealth
of knowledge available on the internet

[ado089]

Jumpstart doesn't replenish phosphate,
it only helps make what is already there
more available.

[pourfarmer]

See what I mean about a wealth of
knowledge available on the internet.

I will be the first to admit organic
production isnt a perfect system but for
me its better then alternative at this
time.

[wd9]

the alternative is a complete reliance on
oil and natural gas to farm. Run out of
oil and conventional farming would end.
The only reason it works today is energy
is practically free and plentiful.

[cottonpicken]

I hope someday someone figures out a solution and
can quit the chemical,fert doesnt bother
me,herbicides and fungicides not sure,pesticides
something out of dantes inferno.

Alot of research is pointing at the third worlds
emerging disease problem to its adopting of western
worlds diet-high carbohydrate and insulin resistance
could be the mother of all evils.

Keep your minds open.

[ado089]

I agree cotton, there is too much
collateral damage with fungicide and
insecticide to make it an automatic go
to in my operation. I think all of us
are interested in reducing dependency on
all inputs since in our game less is
more until it results in less.

Sickness is simple. If you eat more
calories than you burn you will get fat
followed by sick. If the only exercise
you get is moving from the computer to
the TV your body will break down. Even
myself being fairly active with farming,
hunting, some gym time and other
activities will swing 30lbs twice a year
because of the physical intensity of
seeding and spraying vs the rest of the
year. Luckily that swing is from a very
healthy weight to just bumping up on
overweight. Obviously low calorie
nutrient dense food makes that balance
easier, but that is a factor of how food
is processed and consumed, not how it is
grown.