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Green Fields, Clean Water and Cows

Green Fields, Clean Water and Cows. Re-Imagining. If the goal is to move from an extractive farming system to a regenerative farming system - First, a vision Then, a conversation to describe it.

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Green Fields, Clean Water and Cows

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  1. Green Fields, Clean Water and Cows

  2. Re-Imagining • If the goal is to move from an extractive farming system to a regenerative farming system - • First, a vision • Then, a conversation to describe it

  3. How do I maintain a “continuous living cover” or, how do I keep the land working for me all year around?

  4. do you have . . .PTMD (Part Time Monoculture Disorder)

  5. Cover Crops Increase soil tilth and porosity Sequester nutrients Add Nutrients Reduce erosion Increase organic matter Reduce weed & pest pressure Reduce soil borne pathogens & disease Reduce compaction

  6. What’s more profitable, a wheat crop that yields 40 bu/ac and sells for $15/bu, or a wheat crop that yields 100 bu/ac and sells for $6/bu?

  7. Getting ready to install mobile fertilizer manufacturing and processing facilities on a field of wheat stubble. This equipment will remove vegetation and spread a balanced fertilizer formulation across the field. (Often identified as cows)

  8. Meet Your New Fertilizer Guy “I like signing the back of the check, not the front.” Gabe Brown

  9. Common Sense Conservation Practices

  10. CP - 33 CP - 42

  11. The Magic Fountain

  12. Good stewardship done right makes the farm profitable

  13. Dave Bishop (217) 871-2164 dave@prairierthfarm.com Give us a hollar !

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