It's a similar faimly of disease as tire blight, very hard to tell The two apart. But they have the same treatment program and show up at the same time.
Jon, your high protein heirloom beans; look into heirloom corn seeds for the protein burst too (Reid yellow dent is 3x commercial hybrid/gmo, bloody Butcher is 4x and Blue Hopi is 5x).
The cost of chemicals would be my biggest driver of learning how to walk between conventional and organic I have always loved row crop cultivating. I love the moldboard plow, too, but that just doesn't make sense every year like we used to. But the more we learn about soil, I can see in my transitioning soil that it might need a little mechanical assistance to help the transition while we build structure and biology This year is a year of extremes, and how do we say Desperate Measures for desperate times. I would love to keep the row crop cultivator and put some sort of cover crop seeding on it. Greatly reduced the amount of herbicide I use, reduce the amount of cultivating and let roots and plants do what they're supposed to do
I’m sorry I haven’t taken much time lately to keep up on RU-vid videos but what was the history earlier this spring on the field? Did you do any primary and secondary tillage passes on the field?
Moisture stops coming up where it hits the cultivator line , breaks that capillary action and the loose dirt on top is like insulation , more effective than crop residue I think.
Do you have any fields with a history of high calcium levels or high lime applications? Wondering if those fields this year are “breathing” better in your opinion?
@@mn-1381 John Kempf just had a presentation about using calcium as fertilizer also I think what Glenn has been saying is starting to catch a little traction
Have you ever looked into growing natto soybeans ? Would fit your geo. Well big premiums for them, also im really not trying to be a smart ass but it seems like you are doing more and more tillage lately what is up with that ?
I will look into them beans. These beans have a healthy premium. Some tillage, like the cultivator and finisher, are to reduce chemical use and get oxygen into the soil. If we look at the function and definition of healthy functioning soil, I need to do a little tillage to help my transitioning process. Long term goal is to have lots of rich fertile functioning no till soil. Also have some fields that are getting rough. I dont care about wearing a no till hat and bouncing the teeth out of my head. If I have to do a little tillage to smooth a field up I will. There are more studies showing that light tillage followed with covers or growing roots is better for the soil than no till with all the chemicals
