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Re: draining a wet spot in field


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Posted by paul on December 28, 2009 at 21:28:12 from (66.44.132.155):

In Reply to: Re: draining a wet spot in field posted by JMS/.MN on December 28, 2009 at 19:55:48:

Yea, I know. 50% of this farm was pasture medow when dad got it, too wet to farm. Some really good black soil for crops, but I need to tread carefully to get anything done. Tiled some this fall, hope to do more this spring. It's going to get much tougher, soon, I believe. Part of what I tiled was a very tiny, 1/2 acre seeping spring - farmed it every year, but you often saw it was planted later, or had crop on it until it froze. I was kinda nervious on that one, but passed.

I was thinking it was a little later 'here' when things got tough, but it might have been 1983. One of the few things dad was progressive about, getting tiling done back in the 50s & 60s.

Bought the neighobring 40 a couple years ago, it has a wetlands of 4 acres or so; it has 7 acres of farmed ground that is kinda damp, and the rest is tiled. Dern fool I bought it from had it checked out for wetlands be4 he sold, and so all 11 acres is now considered confirmed wetlands because it was all grass for someone to feed their horses. If he woulda left it alone, & I coulda farmed it a few years, would have been a lot less 'wetlands' and I mighta been able to do something with it. Heck, tile and an inlet go into the 'confirmed wetlands' area, should be converted farmland, not wetlands. Oh well, I guess that's why I got it for less than prime ag land $$$..... They tell me I can do anything with it for farming or grazing, other than drain it. So, I make hay every year, there was one dead tree about an inch diameter, for sure keeping the trees off it or they will grab it for trees in addition to wetlands! About 2 acres of it I'm cropping.

The average joe has no idea the hoops we are jumping through any more to try to make some food for them.

--->Paul


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