Re: no till or conventional

Posted by skip33652 on November 14, 2006 at 05:01:22 from (66.115.255.217):

In Reply to: Re: no till or conventional posted by vally farm on November 13, 2006 at 18:48:28:

I know there are many different ways to farm but farmers have not really been turning the soil for thousands of years. in fact until the idustrial revolution and the invention of a decent plow most of agriculture was similar to no till or reduced till that we have today.
look at the american indian and the wat they planted corn , take a stick poke a couple holes in the ground put in seed corn in one and a fish in the other. keep it sort of weed free and imagine that corn.
okay don't like that look at how most of the rice is grown in the world yet today. flood an area with water to drown most of the weed s hand plant rice . there are plenty of other examples.
also one must consider that up until the late 1800's very little of the total acres in the good ol usa was farmed now almost every acre that can be farmed will be and subject to erosion.
My ancestors helped settle this little area in 1924 and in only 70 years lost nearly half of topsoil. obviously cannot continue at that rate.

as far as an answer to the real question that was posted modern ag will continue to cut man hour costs into the future. every time that an operation can be ommited profit can be transferd to the owner. If I were to go back to the way we used to farm before no-till I would need an additional labor force( can't find a good hired man or woman at any price it seems) as well as an aditional $500,000 in equipment

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