I'm not saying some of the problem is not farmers nor lawn/grounds keeping. What I do see is the lack of grass waterways in fields here. We have been using them since the 60's at least. We just raise the equipment up over them as we cross them. Don't spray them and don't have wash ditches in the hollows. I realize this does not solve the chemical/fertilizer runoff problem. Though if we had so much run off of chemicals it would seem like the waterways would be dying from the runoff. What I do see on our place is the waterway have been there so long they have filled in such they are trying to run water around them along the sides as it is lower than the grass. So I now stagger them to hold the soil in some fields. I have tried no thrill planting and would starve to death on the yields from it. We do get much heavier faster rains than when I was a kid 50 years ago. Now as all this ground gets built up the problem will be being able to feed the masses as the population increases. Then the price of grains will get more profitable with lack of supply. Corn will not be able to be used for alcohol production of any kind . While I am not a big user of nitrogen fertilizers or chemicals I do use them. I only use about 100 pounds of N per acre on corn and label rates on herbicides seldom any fungicides or insecticides. We do raise hay on the most highly erodible fields or keep them in pasture and not eaten off to bare ground either. We may plant them to corn about every 10to 30 years to recover the natural fertilizers from the livestock or the alfalfa sod as the seeding wears out.
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