@iowANFarmer Invest In Some Tile

[wsolly]

Both ideas are good. Cover crop is good for other reasons also. Good interview

[simpson]

Cover crops help keep the soil from blowing away by keeping the direct sun off the soil, different cover crops help add nutrients back into the soil reducing the need to add more chemicals. Rotating crops in fields along with using different cover crops will keep a Feild much healthier than tile draining. Read up on the USA dust bowl. It's takes a shit ton of work to make a Feild viable again once it's dried out. I did 2 gardens one year, one was plowed and used liquid fertilizer and the other was plowed with dry amendments then a cover crop of clover. The one with liquid fertilizer I had to water almost every other day because the soil dried out to fast, the one with cover crop I hardly ever had to water after the clover grew. Both ended up growing about the same weight but the one with cover crop took 10x less work over all

[WTFIsThisGuyDoing]

And this is why Iowa has some of highest nitrate levels in it's groundwater in the nation. Good job boys. Grow that Ethanol for uncle Chuck

[illinidave]

Field tile is the reason we have extreme floods and a week later the barges can't get down the major rivers 2 weeks later. Cover crop is good for the soil and reduces the chemicals.

[Houston_atFU]

When you don’t understand all the reasons for putting a cover crop in. Went to college and still stupid.🤣🤣

[rockystaatz]

Fixing the problem fixed everything in the past, I’ve seen tarresed farming and it done great in the past and still produces since the dust bowl. Kansas only looks flat

[nzkiwi]

Gabe Brown is a Bismarck ND farmer that is definitely worth looking into

[justincash]

Dude says spend more money on nutrients and terracing instead of cutting costs by using cover crop 😂😂 that's his Grandpa's ideology speaking for him

[mrDyl]

Dude doesn’t understand all the reasons to have cover crops.. it’s not only drainage

[Mattchu]

I can’t believe I’m listening to farmers and finding it interesting. Thank you YouTube gods

[iiam]

The YouTube algorithm wants me to watch the sopranos, play warhammer 40k, and now become a farmer 😂

[Peterblack]

It's always the same with these farmers. At first they all talk the good talk saying things that we support. Fighting the good fight, criticizing the waste of big aggro. Talking about right to repair.

Then, once they get notoriety, they turn around and start talking just like archer Daniels midland, Bayer Corteva and Monsanto.

You're not against modern wasteful farming. You're just upset you've had hard times and want a drinking buddy and somebody to cry with you.


You don't disagree with the multi millionaire farmers, you're just mad You're not in their spot.

[farmerjoe]

Drainage tiles are not a good idea. They wash out all the nutrients in the soil. You might gain some acres but they won’t be bumper crop acres. Talking from experience.

[parkerw.]

I mean, it can blow away pretty quick if you’ve got strong winds in your area. Depending where you live wind erosion accounts for 4 to 10 tons per acre of lost soil every year it could be down to three if you have very little wind in your area.

[bking]

Yes. Make damn sure every drop of those fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides go straight into the watershed. Besides, a couple more bushels per acre is worth a good dust storm every now and then.

[drakemartes]

Whoever puts in the little pictures and stuff is great. Helps a lot for people who don’t know much about ag

[wesleemiller]

Cover crops work great to keep dirt from moving and can increase soil fertility and profit.

[UpstateGardening]

Mono-cropping isn’t about building healthy soil and long term usage, it’s about money

[logank]

what about wind erosion and or do you think low spots hold water to naturally feed the fields?

[mtbmaddox]

Not to mention cover crop has an amazing effect of restoring ground water. I wouldn’t consider a pip that leads to a creek good drainage when that water could be being stored in ground.