Nitrogen Crisis Coming?

I hadn't known just how complicated corn growing is. Thank-you for sharing your experience and knowledge.

Seems like normal cycle of weather. Seems like every 12 years have the same issues pop up again.

That is an excellent video with some stuff I had not considered before.

If the nitrogen will reduce the bushels that is a good thing to keep prices from collapsing further.

Farmers need to get away from subsidy and mono crop farming. Choose regenerative, and maybe farm-share ownership would be possible to get away from government control?

Conventional ag is always being 2 weeks away from a drought, and 2 days away from a flood. I’ll never get close to the yields they get on a good year, but a bad year means I get 174-184, instead of 194-204. When you factor in the late planting date, the ultra ultra short season RM’s I use, that’s not bad. Add in the pounds of beef gain per acre from grazing pee wee cattle, the poultry poundage, I’m making more nutritional value, calories and nutrients, than any corn field will ever make.

Everyday life for a farmer,,theres nothing new going on,,even the floods they happen to somebody somewhere every year

Good content.

I supply my own nitrogen. 🤫

Plant beans when the corn is one foot high.

wood chips, rock dust, and ashes. but that's not allowed by your contracts, is it?

I grow nitrogen fixing corn because the soil or as we locals call it "sugar sand" is very poor in nutrients

Guess we could apply more N to replace what washed into our water supply so we can make more ethanol that has to be subsidized to be sustainable 🤔 Yep, I think that’s the correct answer👍

Sidedress my guy

Most pollution comes froms city runoff.

No it just means you are locked into a single way of thinking along with everyone else. Big corporation controls you so you need them to sell as most farmers since nobody resists them. One farmer alone has a hard time to sell as mega meat controls government & nobody can get a local processing facility due to cost & measures to ensure they never do as they are alone. Together we stand divided we fall. My old wife & I are retired farmers. We planted over 800 trees on our 4 acres so far & onward. My native trees now can be lumber or locally shelves, tables & list goes on. An example: We harvested 1100 lbs of tomatoes just from 50 plants I grew in two 8 inch pots from saved seeds. I could have grown lawn. You have flooding since you have no soil infiltration due to loss of aggragate & that is just basic. I am from Alberta Canada. I know about monoculture gmo farming trust me. Listen to Gabe okay. We should be growing livestock on cover crops & grass & nuts & fruits & on & on in cities as well. Did you know & be truthful now yes or no that the loss of 4.5 billion with a b American Chestnuts due to an introduced ornamental changed Appalachia forever? Yes as one tree fed a village. Provided lumber that never rotted for most everything. What If We Changed?

Most of our nitrogen comes as a by product from oil refinement . Thanks joe

Good time to start looking into regenerative agriculture.

Plant clover

Conventional chemical farming ain't the way to go. Time to learn permaculture methods.