re: Fertilizer Prices & Food Plots

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How do the seeds that nature drops come up and thrive so well in the wild? No fertilizer is applied to any of it.

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Evolved over millions of years? Why is it that when you clear land of a CRP you have to lime? Why is it that you can look at a CRP with crappy soil and have crappy trees, but even on the same contract you can see where the soil was decent/good and the trees look 100-200% better? Why is it that some plants prefer more acidic soils? Why is it that when you take soil analyses they ask what crop you are wanting to grow? Why is it that some trees can take advantage of a closed canopy when others can’t? What does an extra 20-30 years of growth mean to a tree that has 100-300 years to live and reproduce?

Im not saying a couple years of fallow land with the right legumes can’t leave enough nitrogen to grow a plant, but I can’t see how they can leave enough nitrogen to make the plant thrive and make a yield like it would If you followed an analysis. Maybe over a decade or more, but your crops have to be lacking nutrients until the field is able to produce it on its own(if it ever can). Even after soybeans that leave ˜20-30lbs of N/Acre you have to make up the remaining Nitrogen. Alfalfa? Yea there is the possibility of a lot more N/Acre, but those are specific crops that humans have propagated over many years.
Ms. State is supposed to be looking into this in the next couple years, if they get the Grant money. Even then they will be specifically choosing which plants to plant in the spring and the fall. It isn’t just letting random weeds grow.