Posted 1/2/2025 07:45 (#11037362 - in reply to #11037320) Subject: RE: Then LL ruined the farm...........................
Fontanelle, IA
thekcirp - 1/2/2025 06:04
The hill ground is washed away, the beans on it probably didn't make 20 bu. Per acre this year. Years of no fertilizer will cause this.
It didnt ALL wash away during a 1-3-or even a 5 year contract. Plus it was prolly already a farm that should have been taken better care of before the last guy got it.
The significant intensity of storms through north MO and South IA over the past few years would only amplify the erosion potential of large field cultivators/diggers necessary in order to plant north-south/east-west at 8-10 mph regardless of slope/contour because high speed planters don’t run well “in the rough” or survive. Add a few years of consecutive beans because of management decisions and that is the recipe to wash fragile cow-pasture farms down the hill. Those farms probably also needed some tile and lime from “the start” which would have helped some.
The cash rent auction mcbees
