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 …
Is There A Flu Shot for Partially Drained Depressional Areas?
Each year, my pharmacist, Dr. Jennifer Filloon, demands that I get a flu shot; no excuses. Flu shots are truly a part of precision medicine. Flu shots are designed to do one thing - prevent the flu. And the benefits are clear: The flu shot targets seasonal flu strains predicted by researchers. The flu shot has no appreciable side effects. Getting an annual flu shot boosts immunity to the flu and can prevent, or minimize, the flu. Getting the flu shot is simple and inexpensive. In a recent webinar, Dr. Steven Hall (Assistant …
Soil Triage
Triage, Triage, Triage…or the medical term for “setting priorities” Ok, so here is a stupid question. How important is it to take someone’s body temperature when you are assessing their overall health? Well that depends, doesn’t it. If the patient is at the doctor’s office for flu-like symptoms, then taking someone’s body temperature is pretty important. However, if the patient is in the Emergency Room with a severed arm and bleeding profusely, then taking their temperature is probably not high on the priority list. The same can be said …
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Really, One More Thing?
Last month at a round table discussion, Paul Meints, Minnesota Corn Growers Association, stated that farmers are fatigued from the “one more thing.” When farmers are asked to do a conservation practice and they do it, they think this thing is going to solve their environmental problems. Then 5 years later, 3 years later, or even 6 months later, they are asked again to do one more thing. They do another one more thing and the cycle continues. Mr. Meints’ comments reminded me of when Peggy and I bought our house; a house we love. Naturally, we …
Choose Variety for Conservation
If you don’t care about the long-term results, then sure one size fits all…It seems like we have to learn the same lessons over and over. In 1986, I was a new District Conservationist in the Carroll Field Office in West Central Iowa. NRCS was just rolling out the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). In those first years, we conservation planners wrote one CRP plan after another, for pure stands of smooth bromegrass on CRP. It only took a few years before the wildlife biologist realized that a solid seeding of smooth bromegrass was almost …