The Bleeding Edge

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Several Washington County families trace their conservation interests back decades. For Rob Stout and Darrell Steele, their dads’ interest in conservation primed them to be open to the idea of no-till. Still, getting it to work took a lot of perseverance through various failures. Eventually, the planter attachments helped. The early pioneers emerged with a willingness to share what they were learning with other local farmers. Like no-tilling, that generosity persists in Washington County.

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0:00.0	This new thing called social media, you should check it out sometime.
0:03.7	Is that like MySpace?
0:05.8	It's like where they have the internet on computers and stuff now.
0:09.1	Yeah, MySpace.
0:10.3	The internet on computers.
0:11.7	So like Oregon Trail.
0:12.9	Yeah, Oregon Trail.
0:15.0	Yeah, like Oregon Trail.
0:16.9	That's basically how you learn out of farm too, isn't it?
0:20.2	Yeah. That's basically how you learn out of farm too, isn't it?
0:29.9	I'm Zach Johnson, and I farm in West Central Minnesota.
0:31.2	I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:32.7	This is field work.
0:36.8	Thanks a ton to the Walton Family Foundation for their support this season.
0:41.6	We're the podcast by farmers, for farmers, and about farmers.
0:43.9	Are there any prepositions that we miss there?
0:45.5	Near next to farmers?
0:46.9	We better move on.
0:51.6	This is getting deep quickly, and we know that we can get into the weeds way too far.
0:52.3	Way too far.
0:55.1	So this is the third part in a special series about Washington County, Iowa. That's where Mitchell's farm happens to be. Yeah. And, you know,
1:00.5	really carrying on on the conservation culture here. We've been digging back through and starting
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