That’s what my guy at Cargill is for!
What do you mean all this nitrogen I’m putting down is burning my crops? I been doing it the same way for thirty-odds years.
dumb city folk don’t know what they talk about
Dumb city folk think farmers don’t understand science.
Without looking it up, what’s silage, what’s it for, how does it work. Go.
A lot of that knowledge is passed on between generations, and was trial and error, rather than formal training.
Cool challenge
Anaerobically fermented grass, it’s cattle feed for the winter, it ferments under covers without (much) air getting to it, that way it also doesn’t rot.
I think. But I’m a network engineer so that could be wrong. It’s just what I think I heard in some random source I don’t remember.
Silage is fermenting crops under an oxygen deficiency(this is crucial to stop the crops from rotting) to preserve the gras. Its basically an upscaled version of making sauerkraut.
Easy as that.
But yeah, this devinetively isn’t something everyone knows and also most people will never need this in their lives.
…or they just saw a minority. Similar look!
This here soil is as fer-tile as my cousin wife’s baby maker and no city slicken, fancy pant scientist is gunna tell me different, ya hear!
Imagine being this condescending to professionals in a highly complicated field. Farmers know this shit, hell they helped invent it you fucking prick.
I saw it and just moved on because I was going to get pissed off arguing with assholes that have never seen a tractor first hand.
We put hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of land into legume fallow and cover crops in order to increase fertility. We plan for weeks ahead of every planting season to understand soil tests and come up with strategies that get a crop off and built organic matter. We spend hundreds of thousands on equipment to reduce tillage and encourage soil biomes.
But I guess we’re still stupid fucking assholes to everyone. Kinda gotten used to the hate.
Yeah I know this is just an AI generated meme, but people who look like this are actually pretty solar punk, in my experience. I first heard of fracking radishes from a 70 year old farmer, 15 years ago. This meme just promotes culture war bullshit.
You use super long daikon radishes to break up the soil and then disc them in. Breaks up soil naturally without plowing and acts as winter cover.
https://www.restorationseeds.com/products/fracking-forage-radish
I know, I grew up in a farming town. One of the few reasons I accept how fucking angry rural people are is because of how the internet and urbanites treat us, it doesn’t matter who I’m talking to as soon as I let my accent slip you can see their opinion drop as now they just see a country hick
Don’t kid yourself, there is still an assload of convention tillage and monocropping going on, at least in my neck of the woods.
I’ve surveyed large swaths of agricultural land; hundreds of inspection points, and the B horizon has been completely lost due to annual tillage. In one case I had two pits 200 m away from each other. One was in the field and one was in a stand of trees they didn’t clear. The field profile had maybe 15 cm of A horizon with no structure over a calcareous C. The bush profile had 50 cm of well structured A horizon, and another 20 cm of B overtop of the same calcareous C. It was beautiful.
In another field, a guy was moldboarding… This is just one of the surveys I’ve been on.
There’s a lot of guys out there who know what they are doing, and they do it well, but at least in my opinion, regenerative Ag needs to catch on more. From my perspective, there seems to be resistance, though, and I’m not sure if it’s from economics, generational practices, or a combination of factors.
Unless the crops are barley and hops I can’t see you getting much focus from that bunch
