A picture to challenge some preconceptions

[grassfarmer]

How sad and predictable the comments are. They mostly reflect closed minds and a chance to parade pre-existing prejudices. Any unbiased observer would say "wow, that's impressive - tell me more". Instead accuse them of using photoshop or share concerns about how the farmer must be depleting his land. Interesting that this picture of an obviously lush, healthy crop would raise this concern when week in, week out pictures are posted of average, or below average crops yet never attract such comments. I guess for most a shitty crop grown with $500 of inputs per acre is always better than a great one grown without. No wonder farm input pimps like dealing with the average farmer - it's like taking candy off a kid.
As for it being a horrible crop by Nebraska standards it looks better than this one that the Nebraska Corn Board is displaying on their Twitter page. The grower of the crop I pictured first estimated it had potential to yield north of 400 bu/acre.

[makar]

There is a lot more to this story, feedlot manure is my quess.

[samhill]

Agree Makar, it’s a shxxxy story.

[grassfarmer]

There is a lot more to this story, feedlot manure is my quess.

No, he grows cover crops and mob grazes them with cattle. The cover crop the previous year was worked under to grow this crop. He is primarily a grass farmer, raising grass-fed beef. This is a cash crop, part of his rotation.

[jazz]

No I dont love input companies but to think you can grow 400 bu corn with a cover crop is nuts. It would take 5 yrs of the best nitrogen fixing cover crop and cattle grazing the land to do that. 400 bu corn would need 1000 lbs N. So I am supposed to be impressed the land netted zero for 5 yrs and then hits a whopper? Then probably irrigated with pig sludge on top of that.

Works for about .0001% of the producers out there.

[farming101]

Is there any info on the interweb about this?
Strange, 15 posts and no link

[wd9]

You don't need links for a religious discussion.

[sumdumguy]

Article must come from the “Climate Change Bible” available at Tommy Douglas Square. If you look closely you can ‘see’ all the cobs lean to the left.

[grassfarmer]

No I dont love input companies but to think you can grow 400 bu corn with a cover crop is nuts. It would take 5 yrs of the best nitrogen fixing cover crop and cattle grazing the land to do that. 400 bu corn would need 1000 lbs N. So I am supposed to be impressed the land netted zero for 5 yrs and then hits a whopper? Then probably irrigated with pig sludge on top of that.

Works for about .0001% of the producers out there.

It may have 5yrs of cover crops grazed by cattle - but why would that net zero? It may have been incredibly profitable, maybe more so than this huge corn crop.

[Klause]

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