My thoughts for an organic or a lower input system to dollar out you need livestock to cycle the covers faster and add revenue. Not practical for most but doable for some.
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Originally posted by farmaholic View PostPatures have been badly abused in these parts. Obviously rain would help immensely but even with it I still think they are poorly managed, over the long-term. Seems some people can't get their head around excess grass.
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Klause nitrogen is nitrogen, there is no such thing as synthetic nitrogen. Go take a chemistry course or talk to a real unbiased soil scientist. They will tell you nh3 is as good as any other n source.
Micros are a waste of time 95 percent of the time. The universities have done trials and research it doesn't pay.
So you aren't really organic just but don't use nitrogen or sprays I really can't graso how the economics of that can work with no premium for the grain.
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Quite the discussion. In 1988 i direct seeded for the first time. The whole neighbourhood was in an uproar. The fool has really gone off the deep end. He will be broke in 2 years. It will never work. the fields are so rough. WEEDS will take over he is not cultivating. The land will turn to cement.It looks like shit. By the year 2000 the neighbours were all doing it and they didn't go broke either. We have now come full circle and the accepted norm is direct seeding and all that goes with it. It didn't take long. what will be the norm in another 30 years?
I leave you with A thought from Gandhi.
First they ignore you
Second they laugh at you
Third they fight you.
Fourth you win
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I am going piss some people off here.
I was talking to a very senior individual with a grain co. And he commented that somethings make him uncomfortable with organic. He has an organic facility and stated that all product is delivered under affidavit. Meaning it isn't tested for pesticide residue.
There are several customers that are partially organic and part conventional. But miraculously the organic land far out yields conventional.
Sounds like a pretty big loophole to me.
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