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Field Work

Beyond the Wind Break: Sustainable Ag at a Community Scale

Field Work

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Many farmers care about soil health, water quality, and about being good neighbors to each other and to people in nearby towns and cities. But sometimes it may feel like what farmers do individually doesn’t make much of a difference. In this episode, Zach and Mitchell talk about what it looks like when farmers start working together, as well as with others in their watersheds. Iowa farmer Ray Gaesser, Texas A&M research scientist Liz Haney, and the ag director at the Environmental Initiative in Minneapolis, Greg Bohrer, weigh in.


Resources:


Cedar River Watershed Partnership


Cover Crop Insurance Incentives


Midwest Row Crop Collaborative


Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills.

0:08.0

General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative ag practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030. 30. Roll time.

0:29.6

Hi everybody and welcome back to the Field Work podcast.

0:33.6

I'm Zach Johnson.

0:34.6

I'm Mitch O'Hara.

0:35.6

We've got our episode here today talking about watersheds.

0:38.8

And as always on the Fieldwork podcast, this is a podcast by farmers, for farmers, talking honestly

0:46.9

and openly about the day-to-day realities, you know, that as conventional farmers we're

0:50.8

facing here to be able to implement conservation practices, but really

0:55.0

it's just moving in the right direction. It's continuing to move the needle and implement more

1:01.0

sustainable practices. But we've got to regenerate our system, though, first as we're working

1:07.7

towards that and getting there. Yeah, so far we've had a lot of conversations about what farmers are doing themselves individually.

1:14.6

We know as farmers, as Mitchell and I are, we're always trying to do better.

1:18.4

We're always trying to improve, not just yields and our own efficiencies on our farm,

1:24.1

but also improve the impacts that we have environmentally.

1:27.9

And so we're always kind of working amongst ourselves to try and do better.

1:31.9

And we've had a lot of conversations about that.

1:33.5

But today we're going to change that up a little bit and talk more about how farms are

1:38.2

working together to try to make a difference and really improve what they're doing together.

1:43.0

Well, I think this is an interesting topic,

1:45.2

you know, that as farmers, a lot of times, you know, we can be out there kind of on our own. And as

1:50.0

individual business owners and really, we are entrepreneurs, we want to do things on our own terms. You know,

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