Now that is a well-trained horse! Dylan Biggs for you!

Louder for those in the back

We have a soil erosion crisis across this country

We have the tech, the equipment, the $$ incentives but lack the collective will

At this point it doesn’t really matter what farmers think about the merits of climate change, etc. The reality is that this is going to happen. The only real question a farmer should be asking is “Am I in or am I out.”

Yup, this is me all fall! 😉. I hope these farmers are being rewarded for all that labor. I bet there aren’t any heads left in the field like happens with machine harvesting!

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Happy Earth Day! For me, that statement is not about worshipping earth, but rather its Creator! And being mindful of the incredible opportunity, challenge, and responsibility God gave us when he told man to have dominion over it. 'And behold, it was very good.'

Below does not mean that systems/practices are not useful in droughts. They are, especially in less severe droughts.
Here's recent research showing cover crops and residue retention improved soybean yields in a drought. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Want to improve your soil microbiology? Minimize your tillage.
In actual farmed fields, across a region and soil types, reducing tillage had a larger effect than even crop rotation diversity. csanr.wsu.edu/maximize-and-m…

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In order, where have you lived?
North Dakota
South Dakota (briefly)
North Dakota
Nebraska
North Dakota

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Us North Dakotans pride ourselves on self-sufficiency....this would be the ultimate!

This is the result of clear cutting corn fields for large dairies. There is at least a 1000 acres in my neighborhood like this. No cover left to hold back water. No cover crop planted. Manure pits are knifed in the fall and tilled again in the spring to plant more corn for…

Ryan Heiniger Soil degradation is a global crisis.

It’s estimated that, worldwide, 75 billion tons of soil are lost to erosion each year.

This problem can be solved.

Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
(2013, 20 mins.)
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There is no joy in a post like this. Zero. It isn't about one way of farming vs another.

But let's not pretend it is a few bad apples. We have a major soil erosion crisis in this country that is absolutely destroying future generation's ability to grow food, fuel & fiber.

Dr. Shelley Lenz Because utility companies want to have concentrated power not distributed power. Basin is willing to buy solar from big 'farms' in SD, but discourages small business and farmers and homeowners from having solar panels.

It is always a funding of spring to hear the Sandhill Cranes warbling far over head!