Making New Land

[Klause]

5976 ha in these "fields".


That's 14,760 acres.

The big trees you see are too hard to kill (you can't bulldoze them their root systems are expansive and the wood is as hard as steel)... You kill them slowly....


This will be seeded this upcoming spring. This pic was taken a year ago. The shrubs get "mulched" with huge steel rollers with sharp blades... pulled by cats at first then tractors, a few passes, sprayed with gly and 2,4d... Planted to soybeans, then wheat.

The land is being partitioned out by the federal government... $100 usd/ha after you've proofed it up they build you a paved highway extension to the edge of the property... pushing ag expansion further out of the "civilized" areas.

[furrowtickler]

Uruguay?

[Klause]

Uruguay?

Argentina.

[Guest]

5976 ha in these "fields".


That's 14,760 acres.

The big trees you see are too hard to kill (you can't bulldoze them their root systems are expansive and the wood is as hard as steel)... You kill them slowly....


This will be seeded this upcoming spring. This pic was taken a year ago. The shrubs get "mulched" with huge steel rollers with sharp blades... pulled by cats at first then tractors, a few passes, sprayed with gly and 2,4d... Planted to soybeans, then wheat.

The land is being partitioned out by the federal government... $100 usd/ha after you've proofed it up they build you a paved highway extension to the edge of the property... pushing ag expansion further out of the "civilized" areas.

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Disaster. Creating a short term false economy, depending on farming methods to be used

[Klause]

Disaster. Creating a short term false economy, depending on farming methods to be used

What?


Zero till.
Always something growing.
Crop rotations
Pulses


Not sure how that's a "disaster"...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Disaster. Creating a short term false economy, depending on farming methods to be used

And where do you think food comes from?

[Guest]

What?


Zero till.
Always something growing.
Crop rotations
Pulses


Not sure how that's a "disaster"...

What rate of gly and how often?

[TASFarms]

Do you a land location for that. Very interesting

[GrainBeetle]

Disaster. Creating a short term false economy, depending on farming methods to be used

no different than what Canada, USA, Australia, Europe, etc also did to convert native land into farm fields.

[grassfarmer]

Hope it works better than the Alberta version - the land cleared up at Ft Vermillion/La Crete in the last decade. Anyone got an update on that project?

[furrowtickler]

There is also a project in north central Ontario some where . One local guy folded up tent ⛺️ and went out there.

[pourfarmer]

Do you a land location for that. Very interesting

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Lugd__pzhez85lOZQlQ-ukLS9jE&usp=sharing

[ajl]

Bush clearing going on around here in the Edmonton area as well. Know of a number of fields that were bush a few years ago. Recently cleared land has been for sale in the area for a couple of years too. You get to bush the brush piles but they are not able to sell at $400000 per quarter. Wonder why.

[Taiga]

Hope it works better than the Alberta version - the land cleared up at Ft Vermillion/La Crete in the last decade. Anyone got an update on that project?

Majority of it is being farmed, not sure what you thought had happened. Though it is very far from markets.

[Taiga]

Bush clearing going on around here in the Edmonton area as well. Know of a number of fields that were bush a few years ago. Recently cleared land has been for sale in the area for a couple of years too. You get to bush the brush piles but they are not able to sell at $400000 per quarter. Wonder why.

Assuming cleared properly and roots have been picked and it is not swamp, the recently cleared land is the most productive for several years, and weed free.