Our drainage ditches were dug from 1920 to 1960to help drain out this wet ground and make it productive. The land owners were taxed to fund it, and continue to be taxed to maintain the drainage systems.
Nearly all of the ditches around here were dug through flat ground, with the spoils piled up on the banks. So the lip of the ditches is higher than the field surrounding it.
You need to run tile along the ditch to get surface water to go down and into the ditch, it does not run over the surface I tot he ditches.
And yet, we keep hearing how important buffer strips are to stop runoff?
It doesn’t make sense ‘here.’
But no matter. Our governor passed a rule that takes 125-250,000 acres of land out of use for farmers, with his hunting strips along all the ditches. With zero compensation. We are still on the hook to pay taxes on that confiscated land.
And it makes no dam sense. The ditches are lipped up, there is no runoff directly into the ditches.
There is no science to any of this crap.
Those not farming don’t care, poo poo. It’s just so wonderful how this will save the planet. Then they go complain about how much their food costs.
Yea, we farmers get a little bitter.
Apply a buffer where it does some good, and shows some benefit. I’m -all- for that. I have grass buffer around all my tile intakes, I’ve pattern tiled of late so I need less tile intakes, I even have grass field roads along the ditch that spilts my farm in half. So tell me what a bad farmer I am and I should just do something.... that’s all fine.
What you are getting from govt and people who ‘want something done now’ is not actually helping. It’s typical govt one size fits all. Meanwhile, any heavy rain, and the village 5 miles upstream of me on my ditch can leaf ally ‘bypass’ their waste treatment plant and discharge raw sewage into that ditch because, well, it’s been rubber stamped for them to do that because anything else is too difficult for the town folk to afford. All their streets and parking lots are already directed straight into the waterways which get into my ditch. The salt, the excess lawn fertilizer and herbicides, the parking lot oil spills, the....
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