Is Buffalo New York the real mistake on the lake? Anyone watching the weather channel this morning(November 19, 2014) would have to wonder! Feet upon feet of snow in the middle of November has fallen already!
Those people are geared up for it as LuAnn taught me 15 years ago that her town of East Aurora normally gets 140 inches where Cincinnati only gets 20 inches per year. I personally hope they keep that north as our 40 inches or double normal snowfall really made winter a challenge last year. It's starting awfully early this year! Our driveway looks like only some Januaries!
It is notable that Buffalo was the first Porkopolis as America grew and spread in the early days. As more people migrated south to Cincinnati, the Queen City took over the title of Porkopolis, shipping salt pork all over the world. The German Brewmeisters made their mark too until Prohibition changed everything.
The real mistake on the lake is what humans have done for algae growth on Lake Erie and other bodies of water. Now I have to obtain a license to purchase or spread fertilizer on our farm? Get serious, are we that dumb?
Yes we are! Besides of all of the other pollution man has created, it looks like we spread too much manure on frozen ground in the north part of the state and we got caught. Have we really learned how much erosion tillage causes? Do we understand how mobile phosphorous is?
Obviously not, now we have to be legislated by our peers for our refusal to understand. It's really basic agronomy. Any major tillage causes 5-10 tons of soil loss per acre and even no-till is not perfect at around one ton per acre.
The biggest mistake I see is too much tillage. I still see some but most have went to reduced tillage now and no-till conferences and field days are never ending. I sure enjoyed the Ohio No-Till Field Day back in September.
We can't prevent mistakes on the lake but we can prevent soil and nutrients from getting INTO the lake.
What do you think?
Ed Winkle
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