This makes serious sense. It clearly works with row farming and spacing can be planned. It is also a great product for seed companies. just roll the tape down onto the seed bed and even water.
I have been posting that agriculture needs to be engineered around living active fencerows to start with but this can be much better and way more flexible.
It can be a wonderful tool.
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.Written by Donna Hancock Date: 05-26-2026 Subject: Agriculture
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.Written by Donna Hancock Date: 05-26-2026 Subject: Agriculture
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/396258-2026-05-26-farmers-have-figured-out-that-the-cheapest-pesticide-is-a.htm
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
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