Dallas Soil & Water Conservation District: Helping People Help the Land in Dallas County, Iowa, since 1946.
Adel, IA
Joined May 2017
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There’s a #PlusSide to #weatherproofing your farm. #4RPlus practices help soil hold moisture during a heavy rain event or drought. Michael Vittetoe, a SE IA farmer, shares why cover-cropped fields can manage water during rainfall. Read about his methods: bit.ly/4RPlusMichaelVittetoe.
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We received a $1 M grant from EPA to help build 8 wetlands in the North Raccoon River Watershed, which is a source of drinking water for more than 500,000 residents in the Des Moines area. Wetlands are one of the most effective practices to capture and treat nutrients. #IowaAg
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The Central Iowa Water Quality Infrastructure Project kickoff event was held this morning near Alleman. The project creates a new framework to streamline and scale up adoption of saturated buffers and bioreactors by simplying the financing and construction process for landowners.
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This article examines the results of a study on planting both corn and soybeans into a green #CoverCrop.
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Always love to support people sharing their experiences with #covercrops.
Tune into @WHOBigShow tomorrow field day at Phil & Ryan Heiniger near Oakville to share the benefits of cover crops. Be the first to hear about stewardship and regulatory updates that will impact your farm and events across the state. iowacorn.org/iowa-corn-stewa…
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This week, @USDA @SecVilsack joins @farmmillennial and @Continuum_Ag to talk about what farmers need and what the federal government can do about increasing #agriculture's role in mitigating #climatechange. Take a 🎧: fieldworktalk.org/episode/20… #AgTwitter #podcast
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For those farmers who start harvest soon, remeber you could still grow a nice cover crop for the next 3 month. Harvest the sunlight and pump down the sugars to feed the life in your soil
#keepitgreen #keepitcovered
Come visit us at the Dallas Co Fair! We have Whobuddies games, this educational stream table, and stories about conservation award winners!
Here, the jugs on the ground show the water that infiltrated through the soils. Prairie and no till soaked in a lot of water quickly! (1 inch in 10 minutes)
Watching a rainfall simulation at our Soil Health Field Day in Perry. L to R: 8% slope on tilled soil, no till soil, planted prairie soil, 3% slope tilled soil. Runoff collected in jugs in front.
There are a few of these scattered around Dallas County! How many have you found? teapawt.org/CleanWaterIowa/status/…
Looking forward to the return of this great event! teapawt.org/soilmgt/status/9917713…
This isn't a shadow!!! The color changes in this field are from the changes in organic matter (higher water table lower in landscape, results in higher organic matter and darker color), plus soil erosion over time.
Shout it! teapawt.org/MariaCoxFarm/status/98…
Planting into worked ground today. I want to strip or no-till all corn acres next year. Didn’t think I would love strip till so much. #plant18
Don't miss this webinar! Dr. Jaynes invented saturated buffers, and he is a fun speaker. April 18 with Iowa Learning Farms (these webinars are recorded and posted online after the live event). teapawt.org/ialearningfarms/status…