Comment by greenie_beans
6 hours ago
wind is definitely a factor, especially after you remove all the plant life through tillage and herbicide!
6 hours ago
wind is definitely a factor, especially after you remove all the plant life through tillage and herbicide!
Right, but tillage is not a set in stone practice. The Nebraska Corn Board is now advocating no-til corn planting[1]. Apparently it's already dominant in Western Canada and more than half of Montana cropland is managed without tilling.
Herbicide is a whole different discussion and probably too deep a rabbit hole so far down thread.
[1] https://nebraskacorn.gov/cornstalk/corn101/what-is-no-till-f...
agreed on no-till! seeing it at scale is promising