Look, I'm not blaming you in particular. There are a lot of guys out there that don't care one little bit. So one guy does it right and 20 others don't. All farmers get the blame. I know how much our lakes water levels dropped in dry year prior to all the pivots going in and I know what they do now. And we got guys here that have them set set up on a timer. They come one and run even during rain storms. For years MN has slowly but surly forcing folks of septic systems to go to closed systems. Even the amount of livestock here is down. Yet our nitrate levels are rising. So all new systems are sealed. Plus the state has been forcing homeowners into new sealed systems. ANd lets not forget the small towns that have been forced into city sewer systems and waste treatment. Town of Battle Lake, population less than 1,000, city sewer. Henning MN population 810, city sewer. Urbank Mn population 54, yes 54 went to city sewer 3 years ago. Plus less livestock. Sandy loam soil. Now just where do you think the nitrates are coming from? We are not downstream either. They are coming from the same guys running irrigation either the day after a rain or even during a rain. 2 biggest offenders in the area are RDO and a friend of mine. Neither have livestock. Now MN is supposed to start fining em for running em when it sin't needed. We'll see. As far as the nitrates here? Just about every field for 50 miles or so are in some kind or watershed area. Everything here either drains east to the Mississippi or west to the Red.
Now interestingly in just the last week I've seen farmers south of me spreading manure. Like mad. At least 3 of them. One is running a near new JD tractor. Another a nice looking MF and the other a 90's CaseIH Magnum. Tandem axle spreaders. The ground here is a bit too hard to plow that in anytime soon. We most like have about 4-6 feet of frost in the ground right now. Like I say, so guys are doing it right. But judging from what I see here? Maybe 1 in 20.
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