People are moving to the Midwest
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Little bit of info in here - the rate of use is higher in Iowa and manure applied highest as well. Higest rate of binge drinking as well (honestly shocked it beats WI there) which is a big risk. So it could be a **** soup of a couple different things in Iowa specifically.
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If you're out drinking Wisconsin....it's time to take a personal inventory.
Places I used go to get away in rural Winneshiek and Allamakee counties are not so much that anymore. Big houses out in the sticks not everywhere but enough to change the character of what I grew to know not that many years ago.
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don't intend to cave this thread, but the farmers that are still in existence are far more cautious of fertilizer and chemical use than previous generations. Partially due to increased prices, when I was growing up nitrogen was a cheap input and many followed the "more is better" attitude, but mainly most are just better as stewards of the land. There are many instances where our urban counterparts don't have the knowledge to properly apply chemicals or fertilizer to their lawns or are aware of over-application problems or even understand proper use practices. Chemical applicators, whether farmers or custom applicators, need to be certified to purchase or apply restricted use pesticides, but look at the array of (for example) Round-up based products that are available for the public to use at will. Neither group are immune to weather events (flooding, etc.) that take all of the best of practices out of the equation. but the use of filter strips along waterways and manure management plans are indeed being used now that were mostly ignored in the past. Our cheap food policies (government subsidies, federal crop insurance) have forced farmers to use every inch of farm ground available to remain competitive but are also counter intuitive. No easy answers.
It caught me off guard as I couldn't see turning a nice woodland into an exurbia. Hey, you people stay in the South, it is too cold, icy, and there are wolves! (Off my deck, I once heard a wolf howl in the early AM-I love 'em).
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I saw a goddam wild turkey or buzzard by the swimming pool.
But I also had a Texas Bullsnake show up in my kitchen back in my Texas days. Not sure southerners will be a feared of wildlife fun.
Can't say I am there, but I am more optimistic than most.
What snow? Last winter we had one storm and some private snowplow pushed a four-foot pile into the middle of a major public road. In the poor conditions, I didn't see it until too late. My car headlights took a hit. One storm but dang it was enough.
Decorah is a very nice town, and the natural scenery is GREAT. It's what I call "higher-end Mid-West". Having the college there helps.
That's a huge attraction.
Not to beat a dead horse, but one very successful family farming operation in my area (farms in excess of 8000? acres and markets 55,000 hogs/year) has devoted significant acres to organic farming. Although he is very conscious of the effect of the use chemicals in his farming practices, you can bet that he is capitalizing on the price people will pay for their food thinking this will solve the problems of traditional practices
Lots of 'goose poop" vibe in this post. Just wondering if these are the same farmers that hire out-of-state pilots to spray their neighbor's houses with neonics for pests that "they heard might be out there" or plant seed drenched in neonics even thought it's been proven not to be effective, but the seed company produces the chemical?
Far more people die from cold than heat.Those who move north to avoid increasingly deadly heat and humidity.
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Got it for a bit over 1,000 per acre. Went it on it with some friends but the land had been available for awhile so they were pretty open to negotiate.
That's nice, even admirable, but in Iowa the organic guys are caught between a rock and a hard spot. They are simultaneously tree huggers AND extremely poor stewards of the land.
Continuing off OP. Sounds like they may be poorly educated in modern organic techniques.
I’m trying a new product called Pivot-Bio on 250 acres of corn this year. It is placed on the seed and reacts with the microbes in the soil. The reaction then pulls N out of the atmosphere to feed the plant. Which is effectively free N which will replace N I would normally purchase in a pellet form and apply over the top of corn when it is about foot and a half tall. Environmentally safe with no chance of run off.
I assume it is wooded rolling land. That kind of ground in SW Iowa sells to hunters for $4-6,000.
Mostly woods with a river running through a big chunk of it, if by rolling you mean hilly then nah it’s pretty flat. Couple ponds/lakes but nothing major. There is just a ton of land available in Michigan. If you go to the UP it’s even cheaper, but it’s in the UP.
