'Morning Swordy
Field tiling is good for farming, but really bad for water quality in the rivers because of the silt in the run-off. They really need to put a Brita filter on the tile outlets.
Agreed. However, the farmers would shit kittens over losing tillable acreage to do such a thing. They're all convinced no-till and cover crops are the way to go.
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Filtered for never, not even once, posting anything positive. And you didn't even get a (you) for it.
Good luck farmeranon. Land prices in Iowa are pushing 16k/acre. The ag corporations are buying up all the land they can with the intent of making anyone left willing to farm tenants.
I should have specified here in Iowa. Corn and soybean associations are pushing it hard here and quite a few have gone that way.
Not a farmer anon. Just reporting the trend where I live.
He's always got a multi-point plan for everything. That's how they try to portray themselves as smarter than the citizenry.
Division HQ - MN
1st Brigade Combat Team is armor - MN
2nd Brigade Combat Team Air Assault - IA
When it comes to combat deployments, the Iowa boys usually get the shit end of the stick. Iowa red state, Minnesota blue state. Stare long enough and you'll see the pattern.
Anon has often wondered why the western states don't take advantage of being near the coast and building desalination plants and pipelines like Saudi Arabia and couple of other gulf states. Doing so would take most of the pressure off of the Colorado water shed.
You make a lot of sense with that post, but I can't see any of that happening as long as the largest landowners in the state are Cargil and ConAgra. Iowa will continue to send the most fertile soil in the world to Louisiana via the Mississippi River.
The real problem here is that farm kids graduate and seek more money for less work in the cities. It's been happening since the 80's farm crisis when a lot of family farmers went bust. The whole thing is engineered.
The only way to save the American farmer is to break up the Ag conglomerates and auction the land they stole back to the small farmers. They don't need subsidies or price supports. Break up Monsanto, Cargil, ConAgra et al and prices will stabilize without the constant manipulation of the commodities markets by Chicago and Wall Street.
Agreed. I know guys who got Ag degrees and returned to help dad with the farm. Those guys inherited the land and kept happily farming.