EC Nebraska | IN555 - 4/5/2024 21:54
There is plenty of stuff that floods often enough I doubt it would be seeded to pasture. There is pieces that do well to get a short season crop 5/10 years. PP option gets planters across them with the operator name getting changed every so often. I know of fields that were weeds before the ethanol boom that is what it took to even get crop insurance appealing enough to mess with them.
A short season crop 5/10 years is worth farming? Even with subsidized crop insurance? So half the seed, fertilizer, chemical that's used on those acres is wasted? Is that really a good thing? I suppose the fertilizer can side dressed, so sometimes it doesn't get applied when not needed.
And what percentage of the crop is produced on ground like that? Can you really tell me it's enough to affect national food security?
I guess I didn't realize that people would try to farm ground like that. How is it a benefit to society, to the market, to the nation, to spend tax dollars to pay for inputs that only produce half the time?
I farm some ground that might have failures 3/10 years, and sometimes I think it would be better off in pasture. But then I hit the 3/10 years that everything happens just right, and it has fantastic yields. Is the ground you're thinking of like that, that when it does produce a crop it's a really fantastic crop?
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