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What is Soil Erosion?
What is Soil Erosion?
(Part of a down to earth series on the foundation of sustainable agriculture)
“What is soil erosion and how does that affect me?” That’s a fair question. Many of us do not see much soil during our workday. According to a recent USDA-NRCS article, 81% of the people in the United States live in urban areas. Maybe you may go by a park or see some trees planted in the median of the street, how…
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Backstops and Crop Insurance
Backstops and Crop Insurance
Chances are you either played or watched a baseball game. It is with that thought that I want to take a couple minutes of your time to explain a program called Crop Insurance and how important it is to anyone who eats a meal in the United States.
Backstops and Crop Insurance
In baseball, you have a backstop that separates the batter, catcher, and umpire from thefans in the bleacher. Any stray…
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Value in a Three-Legged Stool
I had a general manager twenty years ago who was very good at explaining the basics ofmanaging a business. He would say, “think of your business as a three-legged stool. Sales, margins, and expenses are the three legs. If you don’t pay attention to one of them, the stool will fall.” It’s a pretty solid analogy and applies to anything from someone’s first lemonade stand all the way to large…
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What are the benefits of growing multiple types of forage grasses for grazing animals?
Great article! Each plant species has its own unique effect on the soil and, just as importantly, helps the entire cover crop planting survive various weather patterns.
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The 4R's and the Fertilizer Supply Chain
The 4R’s and the Fertilizer Supply Chain
The stewardship of land and water is becoming a driving force in farming and the fertilizer retailer is taking up the challenge to help implement these changes. The 4R’s are universal and adaptive to many different forms of farming. They will affect both large and small, organic and nonorganic farmers as well as those who market themselves as being somewhere in between.
The 4R’s is…
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The Customer Experience Relay Race
The Customer Experience Relay Race
In ag retailing, we can get it all right. We can have the best product; we can have the best social media campaign; we can have the best in class customer service policy. It’s our drivers and delivery staff that are the final, and most important leg, on what I will call the “Customer Experience Relay Race”. All other members, or processes, can execute flawlessly, but the race is won or lost in…
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Point or Nonpoint Water Issues?
Point or Nonpoint Water Issues?
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The water issues in Lake Erie were mainly about water quality and the general reasons for the massive harmful algal blooms[i]. Des Moines, IA, escalated from “merely” being about keeping safe drinking water being specifically about nitrates and who was going to pay to remove them[ii],[iii]. For decades, this topic has been gaining the attention of government…
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Fully Separate but Fully United(hopefully)
When politics steps into the arena of farming and food, things can become tense. Politics is built on negotiations. We are in the season of nationalism on a world level. Farmers deal in a world that moves with the seasons of nature, not political elections and national sentiment. The natural resources of land, timber, and mineral deposits were formed long before any nation staked a claim to…
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Nourishment and Comradery
The fertilizer and lime application season is here and planters will roll soon. Many larger customers will pull out the first 24-row planter and get going and once the ground gets fit the second one will start rolling. Your fertilizer bins are full and equipment is in good repair. Let’s not forget to keep our staff and ourselves in good repair.
A warm sandwich and a 30-minute break for the…
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The Best Investment You Can Make
The Best Investment You Can Make
The rush of the planting season is quickly upon us. Some of us will ship up to 70% of our fertilizer tons during 8 to 10 weeks. Once the planting season is over, the post-spray period and side dress season soon follow. Once again, many fields will be serviced and work performed.
How does all get done?
By pick up, ten-wheeler, tractor trailer, nurse wagons, and field machines. All used one…
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Making the Right Choice
Making the Right Choice
(Writer’s Note: Above feature image was taken from Prof. David R. Montgomery presentation: soil erosion)
Figure 1. The 4R’s Process (Right Source at the Right Rate at the Right Time at the Right Place) helps to protect the climate, air, and water. Courtesy of Fertilizer Canada and eLearning.
What if I were to tell you that all the vegetables that were ever eaten, all the milk that was…
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Nothing Cures Low Prices Like.....Crop Rotations??
Nothing Cures Low Prices Like…..Crop Rotations??
It is certainly not glamorous and it surely isn’t very sexy, but it just may be what could be the safest and permanent cure to low crop prices and help to spread out the environmental risks associated with heavy dependency on just a few crops for farm revenue and a subsidy program that by design concentrates farming businesses.
For those readers who are intimately aware of farming issues, I…
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Show Me Your's and I'll Show You Mine
Show Me Your’s and I’ll Show You Mine
“But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.” James 2:18
I write to bring into focus some events that are around us, right now. As I write it forces me to reflect on my own choices and views. I am not taking a cheap shot at any one person or viewpoint. For those of us who would claim to be in the “family of…
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Social(ism) of Food?
Socialism of food (the gift of breaking bread)
An interesting trend that I have come to notice is that in areas with a great abundance of wealth and natural assets, a cultural shift takes place. In the land “flowing with milk and honey” we tend to forget about what it is we have and, instead, focus on what it is we don’t have.
If you read many of my blogs you know that I am food and farming…
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The 4R Opportunity
To nudge anything it takes a force that is able to overcome the momentum that is currently in motion. The industry has been driven by a complicated mix of demand, economics, and policy. This led to a yield-driven model of farming. Many times quantity trumps quality. In the process, those items that have the least representation, like water quality, get ignored. Speaking from experience, I am…
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In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered him on the market. In practice, if everyone went around pricing, and chemically tasting before purchasing the dozens of soaps, or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would be hopelessly jammed. To avoid such confusion, society consents to have its choice narrowed to ideas and objects brought to it attention through propaganda of all kinds. There is consequently a vast and continuous effort going on to capture our minds in the interest of some policy or commodity or idea
Bernays, Edward, “Propaganda”, 1928, reprinted by Miller, Mark Crispin with an Introduction, IG Publishing, 2005