Tweet of the night:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[mopinko]

1. there is so much ag could be doing.

what i have accomplished on my little 1/4 acre is nothing short of magic.
alllll scalable.

[applegrove]

2. I hope you write about it on agricultural blogs.

[mopinko]

8. just my fb page.

[applegrove]

13. There is probably a fb group on climate change mitigation ideas. If not

there should be.

[Blue_true]

3. Why don't you write a book about what you have accomplished and how you did it? nt

[mopinko]

9. on the list.

i actually have a file of all my fb page posts, just needs to be edited.

[DallasNE]

4. That Huge Storm That Hit Iowa Last Summer

Was a climate change warning shot across the bow so perhaps it worked as a wake up call.

[applegrove]

5. Yes. The evidence hurts.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. They should all be required to watch this documentary.

It's called Kiss The Ground, and it shows how at least a BIG part of the puzzle can be ameliorated, or even solved with simple, common sense approaches that have a WAY bigger impact that one might think, were it just described and not explained and demonstrated.

In fact, everyone should watch it. It's the most hopeful initiative I've ever seen in the looming environmental catastrophe.

[applegrove]

7. Bookmarking.

[Kali]

11. yes!

good recommendation

here is the trailer -

https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

[mountain grammy]

12. Excellent documentary..

really, really good.. I've been telling everyone I know to watch. Yes, hopeful.

[Kali]

10. to me the bigger part of this is the environmental groups

finally starting to realize that ag may be a huge part of solving this than they previously thought (most environmental groups see/saw farmers and ranchers as enemies sort of like how the ag people viewed them)

[crickets]

14. Good news! K&R

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. Didn't learn their lesson from the Dust Bowl, did they?

In fact they were resentful of the government programs that saved them and tried to teach them environmentally friendly practices to avoid similar problems recurring. Nor did the government learn that after you help them, they'll turn right around and say fck you, just as soon as they can.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture rents land from farmers across the country and pays them to grow grass, trees and wildflowers in order to protect the soil and also provide habitat for wildlife. It's called the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP. Ten years ago, there was more land in the CRP than in the entire state of New York. In North Dakota, CRP land covered 5,000 square miles.

But CRP agreements only last 10 years, and when farming got more profitable about a decade ago, farmers in North Dakota pulled more than half of that land out of the CRP to grow crops like corn and soybeans. Across the country, farmers decided not to re-enroll 15.8 million acres of farmland in the CRP when those contracts expired between 2007 and 2014.


...instead of renting land for 10 years, the government should buy more easements — legal restrictions ensuring, for instance, that a farmer cannot plow a piece of land for the next 30 years ... or forever.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/07/531894461/u-s-pays-farmers-billions-to-save-the-soil-but-its-blowing-away