Gordon Couger wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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shows the different in notil cotton and
conventional till. In this case the notil is my neighbors


What are the other plants in the no-till? Roundup-resistant?

And the plants look a bit more curly than yours, though it's hard to
see.
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Those are weeds the cotton is real hard to see.

Are they Roundup-resistant?

The cotton is in rows, regularly spaced.

One or two plants are only half as high as the others, but I think that
that is happening on your `conventional' field, too.

As well as looking a bit less curly your non-GM plants are a darker green,
less yellow than the GM ones. How much of that is due to moisture storage
by the mulch, as opposed to some sort of residual effect of the Roundup
on the RR plants, or differences in film? I presume the film was the same.

and
conventional till is mine on an alfalfa hay meadow that is coming
out of hay and into cotton.


What sort of cotton? GM?

No it is conventional with resistatce to another heribcide that can be use
all season long.

Interesting. Can it be no-till, then?



Goodness, tremendous expanse with no wind break. Sun nearly directly
overhead.
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If it doesn't rain soon it the sun will cook it. It hasn't raned in 5 weeks
and it 110f every day.

That's nothing you shoud see the stuff in west Texas. Wind breaks use
moisture and with mositure the limiting factor you can't have trees close
enough togeter to do any good.

That depends on any hot wind. A shelter belt or two can reduce wind
velocity right down for hundreds of meters, and so stop drying. Also their
roots go deeper and they bring up lower water which the cotton can't, and
they add it to the wind.

Besides some of the substances trees give out help moisture to condense
form the air, maybe even rain.

The only place any one put them was where a
neighbor let their land blow on them.

We lost all the cotton there to a thunder sorm that beat 2 week old cotton
in the ground. We have poverty peas (soybeans) on it now.

Then some trees, even if they stopped cotton growing in their immediate
vicinity, could still have been a productive crop, some insurance.


the other 3/4 of the farm is no till.

What you are calling `no-till' is killing weeds with Roundup on
Roundup-Ready GM crops.

Half will go in to alfalfa in the fall and the weeds will be controlled with
round up and other chemical all summer. I don't know what he plans to do
with the other half.

Is the alfalfa RR, or just naturally resistanct to Roundup?