Oh fabs believe you me I ain't forgetting about greed or economics. But sooner or later that field is going to give out, and no amount of chemical additive is going to get a decent crop out of it. Those who don't believe it look at the cost of nitrogen alone this year. By the way organic fertilizers such as rabbit, and chicken manure do wonders for your crops. half a dozen rabbits will produce more manure than you can use on twenty acres of land (mostly because it will burn crops if you put it too thick on the rows. Best to just run it between the rows and let the rain soak it in.
Skeet, I knew ya didn't think I was unedumacated (And by the way for those at home I spell it thataway on porpoise (Yep dolphins are involved). I hope you do get the land brother. I really do. If more hunters and farmers had more land and worked together, and less of it was in the hands of corporate farms I think we would be better off.
Back to greed. The problem is that small farms COULD make the money too IF the goverment would spend a little of that fallow ground money on puttin buyers BACK in hub towns along transport lines. Remember those days? When you could take a crop to town and sell it? My grandfather and his family had a dozen different crops they would plant in different fields for that very purpose. You plant cucumbers here for pickles (Don't let em get too big they won't se and you have to eat em yerself), Tomatoes here for canned tomato buyers, corn there for corn buyers, beets, radishes, peppers, you name it. You are and canned the leftovers at home. I have spent MANY a day in a pea patch fightin fire ants, wasps, hornets, and snakes for a toesack full of peas, just to have to go back and do it again tomorrow.
You know how much work that gets to be, and I miss every danged minute of it. Heck if I had to choose between sitting on my arse watching TV and pickin peas I would be in the pea patch ANY day. Then again at night you HAD to sit on the pea patch and get the deer, and on the corn rows to get the coons, and on the watermelon patch to get both of em. I think of all that good deer meat we were forced to eat because we had to shoot em off a patch of peas and it makes me want to cry. BECAUSE I ain't got a patch planted this year durn it!
GoodOlBoy
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