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Spock:
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:41 pm
by ghostjmf
You're out of the range of the floods, I hope.
NPR is interviewing a flooded farmer who's saying "we tried to get govt agricultural groups to get people to plant cover crops, but nobody was listening".
Re: Spock:
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:10 pm
by Spock
ghostjmf wrote:You're out of the range of the floods, I hope.
NPR is interviewing a flooded farmer who's saying "we tried to get govt agricultural groups to get people to plant cover crops, but nobody was listening".
Thanks. We are not flooded here-but calving starts in early April-so I figure I will have to deal with some mud issues and high creek issues.
As for the other-I am not a fan of all the farmland drainage that has occurred-but I think this flooding would have happened anyway-High snow with rapid melting.
Cover crops are a major push right now by all the universities and magazines. When you have endless miles of 1930's type wind erosion occurring, our cropping system is not sustainable.
Cover crops are more of an erosion thing than flooding, though they do help hold water also. The farm drainage adds water fast to the overloaded system.