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Join Me in Colorado?

November 6, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

I will be attending the 2018 Sustainable Agriculture Summit, will you? The Sustainable Agriculture Summit is the premier annual gathering for major food companies, conservation groups, and farmers. The summit is committed to advancing a comprehensive approach to driving change in agriculture sustainability. Join me! If you are motivated to impact large-scale changes in agricultural sustainability, your focus must include Precision Conservation. I would like to spend a few minutes with you talking about what motivates farmers and ways to …

Category: Precision Conservation

Buman Family picture on vacation in the mountains

Leaving a legacy…

October 30, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

This month marked the passing of a great conservationist. On October 2nd, my dad, Ludwig Buman, yielded to colon cancer; dying at the age of 91. Dad’s name will never be etched among the likeness of Hugh Hammond Bennett, Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, or "Ding" Darling, but his children will tell you his name belongs on that list. Dad was not a great orator. He did not lead a conservation agency. He never desired the power to create national parks. He did not publish scientific papers, nor did he incite public outcry against …

Category: Precision Conservation

Water running down a field.

Serving Two Causes

September 26, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

Recently I have had conversations with representatives from two grain merchandisers. Both representatives indicated that grocers have been changing their sustainability focus from climate change to water quality, reasoning that improvements in water quality were more obvious to the consumer and easier to report. I agree. The ability to track and report agricultural improvements to water quality is far easier to track than climate change. But maybe there is even a better reason that a company should focus on water quality. If the farmer is one …

Category: Water Quality

1966 Northeast Entrance of Yellowstone National Park

Have you ever entered Yellowstone National Park through the East Gate?

September 17, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

My first trip to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was in 1965.  Since then, I have returned on numerous occasions, each time deliberately entering by a different route.  Yellowstone has five entrances (the South, East, Northeast, North, and West).   Each entrance provides me with a unique perspective of the park.  It is not the entrance, itself, that is so unique.  Instead, it is the route I travel to reach each entrance that provides me the altered perspective.  Each time, I see new things. I feel like the same type of experience has happened …

Category: Precision Conservation, Sustainability

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow

We are Misappropriating Our Limited Resources

August 28, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

The arguments to increase the number of publicly funded conservation employees has admittedly run its course. Therefore, the need to update technology in soil and water conservation is blatantly obvious. We know we all need to accomplish more with less. Let’s end the pretext for our lack of progress, and get on with improving technology. Before you respond and tell me why this is impossible, let me provide a response to the Top 5 arguments I hear for not improving technology. #1: Soil and water conservation budgets are limited.  Resources are …

Category: Precision Conservation

What did you accomplish with all that taxpayer money?

August 20, 2018 //  by Tom Buman

It seems like “dollars spent” has become the new metric for reporting improvements in soil and water conservation. I totally agree, we should know how much money is being spent on protecting our natural resources, but I think “dollars spent” is a misleading way to report progress. Taxpayers are entitled to information that contains more specificity, such as tons of soil or pounds of nitrogen kept from entering water bodies.  Better yet, progress reporting should include efficiency information such as the cost of saving a ton of soil (cost/ton …

Category: Precision Conservation, Soil Erosion, Sustainability, Water Quality

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My deep commitment to agriculture and concern for the environment stems from my early years, working alongside my father and four brothers on the family farm in southwest Iowa. Today I build on that commitment by working to create innovative solutions for pressing problems that affect both farmers and the environment.

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