Twilight in Washington County

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mitchell and Zach are trying to understand how Mitchell’s home county in Southeast Iowa developed such a strong conservation culture. Jim Frier, now 88, showed up to the interview with a box full of documentation of all the work he put into educating farmers: flyers from the twilight meetings and field days he organized, which could attract as many as 500 attendees, articles he penned promoting conservation tillage, including one that wondered, back in the 60s, whether traditional tillage systems were on their way out, and photos he took of equipment attachments folks were designing to make no-till work with their existing planters. To be sure, there were a lot of other key people who helped build a conservation movement in Washington County, but Jim Frier teaches us the value of cheerleaders.

Video: Mr. Johnson Goes to Washington (County, That Is)

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0:00.0	I am Zach Johnson.
0:02.7	I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:04.1	This is whoever's flying it is, but this is Fieldwork where we do not follow the script.
0:14.0	We have a script?
0:15.2	Oh, yeah.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:16.6	Have you ever read it?
0:17.3	No, I don't read the script.
0:20.3	Why would I do such a thing?
0:21.7	Let's get to it here.
0:22.9	This is the fieldwork podcast.
0:25.8	A podcast by farmers, for farmers.
0:29.4	Today's a big day because we are finally going to dig into the question that everybody's had out there for a long time.
0:35.1	It's the elephant in the room.
0:36.9	What is wrong with Mitchell?
0:38.7	Okay, for real, this guy doesn't just sit back and farm.
0:41.9	He's constantly running trials.
0:43.9	Like, is there a spot in your fields where you just, like, you turn around on the end and go the other direction?
0:48.7	Or do you have to take notes after every strip across every field?
0:52.5	Yeah, no, that'd be way too boring.
0:53.9	We always have all kinds of different trials and stuff going on.
0:58.0	Last year on our farm, we had something like 150 different things going on.
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