K-mo you must have lived north of Marathon. I live about 10 miles southwest of Marathon but I'm involved with helping on a farm that's right at the source of the Raccoon. It's the old Bjorkland farm if you remember that name. We do have a ton of hog confinements and every inch of tillable land is row cropped. The hog manure is knifed in so it shouldn't wash away but I sure would like to see more no-till. Going back to the old way of plowing and cultivating will mean a lot of our good black soil will get washed down the Raccoon so that idea is out of the question and cover crop sounds nice and is nice but a few kinks still have to be ironed out for it to be generally accepted. Anyway, your observation is correct, we don't have the pasture along with the oats, hay corn rotation we used to have and the manure we used to spread was bedding manure not concentrated confinement manure and we didn't have near as much of it back then. By the way, two more confinements went up along M54 last summer. I'm certainly not against confinements, they are a good market for our grain and a good economical source of fertilizer. Like I mentioned in another post, all of the land I farm is fertilized with manure but it has to be managed properly so it doesn't end up in our drinking water.
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