Originally Posted By: hatt
Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker
The EPA is behind the mandates, that is true, and I am against just about everything the EPA does, and there are no subsidies any more. Haven't been for over two years now, and that was at the request of the ethanol producers. Well, the name calling was accurate.
If someone thinks that a chunk of crop land is just corn, corn, corn, corn year after year after year, then they are a nincompoop. No farming operation does that. They rotate crops as I mentioned. And from what I have read from some, it is quite clear they probably have never even set foot on a farm, let alone have any basic idea of what goes on with one. In the words of John Wayne in the movie "Mclintock"...... "they think that cows are something you milk, and Indians are something in front of a cigar store". Pretty much sums it up.
I know how useless it is to present you with facts and research from previous run ins with you. But here goes anyway for everyone else to look at. You just continue on with your ethanol shilling.
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Many Midwest growers are considering more corn in their cropping mix, but that usually means
growing corn after corn, a situation that adds production costs, can increase risk, and most would
say compromises yield potential.
But many with experience raising corn on corn see no
additional risk and a situation where they can raise some of their best yields.
They have found
ways to make the continuous cropping system work, managing crop residues with fall nitrogen
and tillage, maintaining high P and K levels in the soil, adequate amounts of applied nitrogen, and
high plant populations.
Purdue University
Umm... yea... just because one article says they've found ways to do it doesn't mean that's what's actually happening. There are some fields are on continuous corn on corn but most fields and farmers don't do that for extended crop cycles. Most of the time it is a corn-soybean rotation, with a few fields of corn on corn which are then converted back to soybeans after a year or two. It all comes down to economics... if the profit margin on corn is higher, more corn will be planted but most farmers stay diversified with soybeans and corn, just not all one or the other. The yield from corn on corn starts to go down after a few years due to the nutrient demand and drain and then its either plant soybeans to put some of those back or pump a lot of fertilizer into the ground, a lot of people here go the soybean route. Continuous corn on corn is very hard on the soil, that's why a lot of farmers still do their crop rotations. You can ruin soil pretty quickly if a person does not take care of it. You see a lot of corn on corn on rented ground, people who do not care about the land in the end. Without good land there are not crops....That's the problem.