It’s January 25th, do you know where your nitrogen is? What about your soil? Given the changes we have seen in our weather patterns, these are appropriate questions for farmers at any time of the year. Even though this is not the time of year when we typically think about losing nitrogen and soil, we saw a 5+ inch rainfall event in central Iowa in mid-December and an even larger rainfall event in Missouri two days after Christmas with historic flooding at the beginning of the new year! I did a quick internet search for extreme weather …
Getting it right with AdaptN
Note from Tom: A couple of weeks ago, I eluded in the post entitled “Looking at Both Sides of the Equation” that Nitrogen Index tool was the only nitrogen tools that provided information on the amount of nitrogen that is lost for a crop system by leaching, surface transport, and denitrification. Shortly after posting this article, I received an email from Dr. Harold van Es of Cornell University correcting this statement. The following is a guest blog by Dr. van Es.Guest post written by Dr. Harold M. van Es, Cornell UniversityThese days, …
Disproportionate Effects
When my wife Peg looks at the conservation community, she sees a world that appears upside down, according to her paradigms. Peg’s career has been split between health care and social work. She fully supports the need for preventative care and wellness programs. However, she recognizes that health care providers and social workers need to spend an inordinate amount of time seeking out and helping those people that are unhealthy and struggling with day to day activities. What would we think if hospitals admitted only healthy people and …