Conservation is protecting the long-term capacity to farm.

Rotation works!
Corn/Soybean/Oat/Alfalfa/Alfalfa

Nit fertilizer use 91% lower
Herbicide use 97% lower
Weed biomass similar
Tile nitrate 57% lower
Soil erosion 50% lower
Fuel use 60% lower
Net return similar (revenue lower/input is lower)

Iowans! Get loud about exploited land, and dismissal of your health.

Nitrogen: 50¢ a pound.
Removal: $6 a pound

97% of land in Iowa is privately owned, mostly by big ag, who grow only TWO crops.

Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the US. The worst soil erosion.

There are solutions.

🙃

Thank you Josh Turek!

@iapottcodems.bsky.social Are you guys hosting a Town Hall for Joni, Chuck, and Randy?

Damn Straight!