NEBRASKA | easymoney - 1/23/2025 06:32
Very good post.
A problem I see with these products is you have retail sales agronomists who have zero clue how soils and plants function. How is a farmer supposed to get educated and do a better job when the people they're supposed to go to don't really have an understanding themselves? How many times have you gone into your local retailer and seen a poster on the wall that says mycorrhiza fungi eliminate the phosphorus addiction, It will never happen.
They are there to sell you a product and you are supposed to get a response. So we've been ingrained that if we spend $20 on a product we need x number of bushels back to pay for that product and if we don't get the response then it's clear that that product did not work on our farm.
It's not that these quality products don't work. It's that we are farming in a manner that we are bypassing the natural relationship of a plant to the soil. And we're only using yield to check them. How many people are going to soil test and plant test throughout the growing season to see if we made any changes?
If we buy some of these types of products but we dump it in a seed trench along with high salt fertilizer, fungicide and insecticides, and soil that doesn't have much carbon for the bugs to live on and is also lacking oxygen. And then we come back in season with how many more fungicide insecticide and herbicides. How on Earth are these products supposed to give you their best day? The retail ag sales system we are farming under is designed to bypass these products hence the reason we need so many of the chemicals.
Very true. Much like humans prescribed to take lots of pills, our soils are dependent on what we’ve been giving them. And I agree with lack of carbon and oxygen being big issues.
Most salespeople are told what to sell because they need to make a buck or a sales trip. That is fine for them but not thinking about the science or understanding what they are pushing ends up costing the farmer more in the long run. The salesman goes on to next job while farmer has to undo the damage or deal with the loss.
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