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GS2
Posted 1/20/2025 05:52 (#11063788 - in reply to #11062248)
Subject: RE: Highly erodible land


North Central US
farmer82 - 1/19/2025 08:19

GS2 - 1/19/2025 04:12

farmer82 - 1/18/2025 21:04

IADAVE - 1/18/2025 11:10

I had one gal, years ago declare a field a highly erodible wet land.
She was a nice gal, just out of college and no farm experience, out to save the land from us evil farmers.
She had no clue that no one cares more about the land the guy who farms it.


IA DAVE, I respectfully disagree. Too many don't care. Look at the Mississippi and talk to a old fisherman. They will tell you this used to be 20 feet deep and now you can't float thru it. These pictures are next to a field I farm. It filled the driveway and ditch. Thirty minutes with a skidloader a pound of grass seed could make a huge difference.


Open a history book and you will find that the Mississippi and Missouri were at one point straightened and dredged to allow more boats and barges to pass through it.




No question there, just look at historical aerial photos. In Iowa you can use ISUGIS. Places where there was no or little ditches now are big gullies. We made Lake Mead, we can keep soil in place. Erosion is a natural process no doubt, fixing a rut with a field cultivator every year isn't. Yes, come judge me. I bought my farm where I live 6 years ago. I have added 4 acres of waterways and it is mostly less than 2 percent slope. A little grass or changing direction of farming can make a huge difference. I don't trespass, just observe from road.


My point being when you take the curves out and dig it deeper, you speed up the water, increase erosion. The original rivers flooded a lot because they were slow moving in comparison.
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