Organic land for sale in Sask.

[Hopperbin]

Myself I never notice much difference in the land from the tilled to no tilled to the weed infested, I have purchased a variety. With proper rotation and nutrients and weed control they all produce the same or OK. Now I would expect an organic producer or Greenpeace to step up to the plate and purchase this land for what it is worth which should according to organics and Greenpeace should be worth more because it is already organic and has about half summerfallow on it, rest was peas so that crop should be off by now or worked under as plowdown. Oh do I want to see Greenpeace farm.

[may-be]

Dave.. Read your reply last night and it has given me a flashback. My land was from the older generation. Grew very good crops, was above the area averages according to crop insurance. Then I went to below average for a few years. This was the time I swiched to zero tillage. Needless to say I was getting discouraged not knowing what the rock was goeing on. Then I had read somewere that on some land but not on all land that goeing zero till you might need extra fertilizer for a few years,then you can cut back. Could this be why we have different experiances? Maybe I would not be as happy today getting the same land today as I have in the past.
Satisfied with my crops now so maybe my pay off is comeing. Only problem is, some off my land is getting hard pan and not letting the roots goe down. So I am goeing to try a chemical that supposed to soften it up. Hope it's not snake oil..lol... A compaction tester will be the judge off that on a few acres to start with.

[dave4441]

Let me guess, BEST.

It will do everything you need it to, fix salt, inoculate pulses, reduce fertilizer, hard pan.

You are right about the nutrient lag in zero till. Takes a few years to get to equilibrium.

We had a bad experiance on newly purchased land, Sencor, lentils and rain. Big downpour after application and our new land that had been farmed half and half pretty much killed the lentils and lighter land that had been in zero till for years had no affect.

[may-be]

Never heard off best.

[AG_guy]

On any given land on one acre by 6 inches deep there are over two million weed seeds waiting to germinate so says the studies. One can manage weeds. the organic land would be extremely healthy and teaming with life which plants thrive on. if one bought the organic land and used minimum in ground fertlizer and proper rates of chemical one would have exceptional land and yields for a long time. The soil is free from man made chemicals , salts and the soil tilth should be really good.

Somebody will buy it and will apply fertilizer and see outstanding yields but year after year more fertilizer will need to be applied to keep yields up, soil will harden, salt levels will rise and disease and pests will get higher. And the soil will become dead.

use the land smartly and wow could it be profitable

[Hopperbin]

Why would it be a given that a conventional or min till farmer will purchase this land? This land is not far from me, and considering the weather I might make it to the sale. One thing for sure the few farmers that have their crop off may be in for a deal.