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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo I was flying across the upper Midwest yesterday
This may be neither here nor there, but I flew into Detroit yesterday and happened to notice out the window that more than half the farmers feilds seemed to be unplanted. They were brown and appeared to be plowed and presumably treated with Roundup. Here it is, the height of the growing season, and nothing is growing. All that bare earth really bothered me.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and heavy rains?
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Some of these fields had been plowed long enough ago that you could start to see some patchy weed growth. What bothers me is that if they were leaving the fields fallow, wouldnt you plant some kind of cover crop? I kept thinking of the Dust Bowl.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)economics when you see land setting idle. Not good.
StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)This was definitely plowed fields
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)planted my pole beans a few weeks ago. even the sunflowers came up late. weather weird enough to plant a few more sunflower seeds.