Understanding Agriculture
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| Nitrogen fertilizer is applied to winter wheat. Photo by Michael Trolove. |
There’s a deeply held belief in modern agriculture that more fertilizer equals more yield, and more yield equals more profit. It sounds reasonable on the surface. But when you sharpen your pencil and run the numbers, the math often tells a very different story. For many farmers, a significant chunk of their fertilizer bill is doing nothing more than padding someone else’s bottom line. Story here.
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"Understanding Ag" suggests; "This has been the thinking since the 1980's. Over time the power of herbicides has overshadowed growing a healthy competitive crop and minimizing weed transfer. We now have huge combines that act like weed spreaders. Our crops look deep green but are not truly healthy. Herbicide makers now combine multiple modes of action not realizing this is the definition of defeat. And they sell this to farmers as a more powerful herbicide."
Our go to now is aerial application not a healthy crop.
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