Posted by Texasmark1 on December 23, 2013 at 05:46:35 from (172.242.14.143):
In Reply to: Cotton Harvest Pictures posted by Zach from TX on December 22, 2013 at 19:48:58:
Our guess was Lubbock area; Cap Rock country. Good crop drought or no drought. Happy for you.
On the no field hands comment, back in the '60's Texas agriculture was having problems and the cause was that the fertile plains had been cottoned out. The natural nutrients had been exhausted.
A research station was established at Renner, TX. (now gobbled up by Plano some 30ish miles N. of Dallas). It was staffed by some PhDs from the A & M College and others. They published many papers with adequate pictures and published at least one hard bound book of their experiments. Very handy guide to the young farmer.
They got funding from PRIVATE interested parties that were concerned about the decline of productivity in the state.
They went to great lengths to show the farmers the benefit of commercial fertilizers and other things which did a turnaround on the poor productivity and the increase in TX. farm revenue.
The point here is that one of the findings of the research team was that "you cannot have a profitable business with manual labor". They highly stressed mechanization.
Course they were addressing dryland farming techniques in the blacklands (Houston Black Clay) of a good part of the state and the crops were usually rotated between corn, wheat, cotton, and milo. Crop residue was very important in soil moisture retention and breaking down of the clays and were stressed. The crops mentioned did that and helped to supply valuable nutrients back into the soil but supplemental fertilization was still necessary.
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