It’s not just Minnesota. South Dakota and Iowa are in the same situation. Places on SE South Dakota and NW Iowa have received 8-10 inches of rain in 36 hours. I 90 and many other roads in souther mn and nw iowa are closed due to water on the road
This year is a tough year. Everyone can judge and have their opinion but even on healthy soil this year has been a challenge with just an extreme event There's a lot of years you can say Minnesota has an infiltration rate problem not an excessive water problem. If we had healthy functioning soil that could take two to three inches per hour and it could take that water down into the profile there would be tremendously less ponding and flooding from runoff. But when the top several feet of soil can hold 10 inches of rain even if it's healthy and functioning soil we've had over double that
Still hard to feel empathy for someone who isn't doing the bare minimum to ensure they have soil that can infiltrate more than a gentle rain. The information is out there, and organizations exists that can help transition these farms to healthy, productive lands. There's a lot of information out there that says extreme weather is going to be the norm in the future, these farmers should take steps to adapt now.
Yes Minnesota farmers need to start adopting soil health practices immediately. I feel bad for the smaller family farmer that has just followed the university and Industry recommendations for the last many decades that have lettuce to the destruction of the small family farm and our soils We are working off farm jobs to support our farm I have no empathy for a broadacre guy that is just renting up land. Hard to listen to a guy complain about how tough a year is when the same farmers will say things like if I had to quit farming corn and soybeans to grow food for my neighbors I would quit farming. You have a very uphill task to get soil health across Minnesota Farms. A large majority of that land is ran by older farmers who aren't going to change this late in their career. You have landlords that only care about getting the maximum dollar and if the guy is maintaining a standard soil test. Until that landlord gets fined for erosion and runoff Not much will change there Yeah it was a farmer talking this way if I go on to The normal black dirt full tillage full chemical farmer forums I get Told Countless times how much I hate Farmers And I should just go somewhere else None of this stuff will work on their farm Even though it's working on somebody else's Farm Not very far from them On that same Forum you can see the tremendous amount of farmers who are lacking basic soil knowledge. If we have to make three passes of fungicide I made profit off of that fungicide so the system is working. None of them can answer why and how a fungal pathogen is attacking their crop. And neither can the agronomists trying to lead these farmers In all my life I've never had a university trained college educated agronomist tell me how a soybean aphid functions and what its weaknesses are and how to fix my system so I do not have them. It was just insecticide is only a couple dollars an acre so go spray It wasn't until I got into regenerative agriculture that people actually explained how that bug Works what its weaknesses are why it's attacking my plant
I have had to use insurance I'm glad it was an option. But I would have no problem if you got rid of the taxpayer subsidy to it We need a massive shift in agriculture and the consumer. We need people to stop buying their meat and produce from Walmart and we need to stop buying food like substances. Consumers need to seek out the small Family Farms that are doing regenerative practices to heal the land and make a nutrient dense product
This is minor in the grand scheme of things, and there's always bad weather somewhere in the world. Doubt it will even move the food price needle slightly.
150 grand you aren’t getting all that. Better try 250 grand and up. Plus he gotta keep up with all the government bs placed upon farmers and then the uneducated makes statements he has no clue about.
We all need to make room for more wetlands on the landscape. With the wet-dry swings of weather becoming more extreme we will need them in the wet to protect other areas from flooding. And we will need the ground water that infiltrates from them in the droughts.
Whenever there's heavy rains like this, it exposes all the natural slews and wetlands that never should have been drained by farmers in the first place. Sad, actually, to see what has been lost for current and future generations...
What’s been lost to current and future generations? Lots of dumb comments on here by non farmers that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. Everyone wants cheap food but then they crap on the American farmers.
@@smokingjoe9864 I hear ya bud ,just try think out box solutions maybe pump it in a truck and haul it out storage tanks I know it's crazy weather pattern for sure
