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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,756
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Originally Posted by unclebilly
Drought resistant crops have been used for 30+ years. You don't change the plant variety.
The seed and plant variants aren't what they were even 10 years ago. Cultivation practices aren't either. Agriscience is big business.
I will say that my heavily planted land doesn't support much other than GMO barley, wheat, and canola. When I put some of it back into hay, it took 3-4 years to get an average hay crop off that land. I am actually thinking about putting another 120 acres into hay next year.
Also, alfalfa isn't all that water intensive. It is also really good because it puts Nitrogen back into the soil. I think my alfalfa field did better last year in drought conditions than it did this year in wet conditions. If you flood an alfalfa field with water, it kills it.
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. You've clear got "a little" land. I can't even imagine the workload for that kind of thing.
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