Farm Drain Tile Puts State's Waters at Risk?

[@jrbpa5775]

Back in the early 60’s when we were out in the fields doing some sort of farming from plowing to working ground or baling hay. There was no cab’s or cell phones, so you were just out baking your butt off. Always stopped and drank out of the tile and none of us died. Great video on making people smarter or trying to. Thx!!

[@nbooker7504]

Hello I'm a small farmer from Tennessee and I just wanted u to know I really enjoy your videos and I'm also learning from them .thanks for taking time out of your day to record these videos and plz continue what your doing and I know several ppl that would say the same.

[@htrmacdonald]

Glad to see you taking proper precautions with your run-off. Extra bonus points for debunking the anti-fertilization movement!

[@Arg0r]

Farmer the art of losing money by working 400 hours per month to feed people who think you want to kill them. People should give more respect for the work of the Farmers. Greetings from Switzerland

[@float_sam]

If only it was that simple, they work 400 hrs to make a profit off their product. It could be people food, or animal food or go straight to making fuel for cars. We can't let the maximization of profit for some be trashing of the future for everyone.

[@Arg0r]

@@float_sam yes of course they are very passionating not starving to death. And why do they trashing of the Future for everyone? Arguments?

[@float_sam]

Ronny Horrer If we are passionate about not starving to death then we shouldn't extinguish our natural resources all while producing massive excess for investors profit, we should build resilient systems. The AG waste issue is huge in the US right now, we spray lots of fertilizers (on a upward trend still, more and more) and pesticides on our crops since our soil has been destroyed (the major farming areas around me are turning into deserts and have no soil life from years of destructive tillage and fertilizer buildup). Go look up some youtube videos on Lake Okeechobee (kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppLEq619qp6HhM0), or read about Red Tides ALL over the US this very minute. We are massively killing fish and their spawning habitat with this run-off. Lakes all over the US are becoming seasonally toxic to people and animals because of algae blooms fed by massive scale farming. This isn't even getting into the Co2 issues we are facing with food supply, and that alone is going to be the biggest issue 50-100 years, since well in the US all our 'food baskets' won't produce at that point and the temperate areas will need thousands of years to build up soil that we can grow in.

[@mrprimor227]

@@float_sam all of what you said can be avoided by smart farmers that all their life are raised to know how to use the land and conserve it.

[@kurmis999]

so tell us what have you done from your side to use less.

[@SKC640]

Very interesting. I am in East Central MN and there are some lakes around here that they are blaming the farms but they don't blink an eye when the lake home owners sewage leak into the lake. Unfortunately the farmers are the scapegoat in these situations.

[@ihpower9414]

Thank you for showing that farmers do care about the environment.

[@brandon9715]

Interesting, but honestly not all that surprising to me. I've always thought of farmers as being similar to hunters. Both are highly invested in the environment and are conservationists at heart. Thanks for another interesting video.

[@videostop7564]

Brandon Elbers 100% true. For example, spearfishing, people give them shit cause they shoot a fish and it’s “inhumane” when actually you select exactly what fish to take sizing type etc. you don’t leave waste, most actually pick up any plastic or old fishing line. Lobsters you take only certain sizes and none with eggs etc I could go on and on... the same people hat say it’s inhumane eat fish from crowded polluting farms, or mass caught fish that destroy ecosystems. 🤦‍♂️

[@kyleclark3280]

@Millennial Farmer: I sit on a Municipal Storm Water Utility Review Board in my hometown. Our county is largely rural with 1 medium city and several small towns. We recently had the EPA impose a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load ) of phosphorus and TSS (Total Suspended Solids). Water quality standards are important, but so is working with stakeholders. FARMERS ARE STAKEHOLDERS!!! It is important to have all stakeholders at the table to work on solutions. It looks like you are already implementing best practices. If you are able to share I would like to see some of the continuing data you have collected to provide some foundation or working with our local farmers to promote partnership in managing our water resources in a large, mostly rural, watershed. Thank you for the great content! I wish I would have found you sooner. ~Kyle

[@paulmcgill9110]

Glad to see the level environmental responsibility, kudos. When I was young, mowing, or raking hay on a hot summer day, my Dad and Uncle had always said it was a fine to take a drink from a running field tile where it entered a ditch, this was the old days of clay tile drainage. The water was filtered through the soil, was free flowing, and best of all was delightfully cool. I remember enjoying a long cool drink on my knees in a ditch one hot summer day, and then glancing up the length of the tile to see the decomposing muskrat.

[@2fast65]

That is probably your best video yet i hope people understand farmers do care a lot more than they think have a great night be safe and kick ass racing this weekend.

[@cntslesfabrication]

The only thing that I would try to do is where ever you start pulling samples at the beginning of the year that you keep pulling samples out of those spots thru the entire year just to see what changes and if you think that you want to make improvements if needed. But if you pull other spots randomly is cool also. I think that alot of us that watch your channel know how much you care about doing everything you can for the water and the environment. Speaking for myself you and your family do amazing job and go way over and above alot of farmer's and most of the population even thinks about doing. I can tell you were raised old school by the way you think about everyone else before yourself and that is hard to find now a days. Awesome video like always

[@MillennialFarmer]

CNTSLES fabrication thanks for the kind words! I wish the testing facility was closer, I would probably test about every 2 weeks throughout a full growing season and see what the results were like.

[@cntslesfabrication]

MN Millennial Farmer as you know I am not familiar with your location but are there any Colleges close that do water studies that will do it for free? Because out in this neck of the woods there are some that do and they love to do new locations to learn more and it's free

[@stupidminotaur9735]

yup smart.. i was getting so mad at how he was saying creek as crek. arrrg.....

[@philsutton8677]

Zach those water samples was big eye opener for me thanks for the information!!!!

[@oumadmike1]

new to this channel, not a farmer but interested in the practice- love your transparency! and you crack me up!!!

[@supertekkel1]

Interesting stuff. On our farm in the Netherlands we have seen the return of all kinds of amphibious creatures in the waters around our farm over the last 10 to 20 years. A testament of how clean the tillage water is.

[@TheZwerfer14]

But keep in mind how strict the rules in the Netherlands are compared the the USA. The USA is the wild west when it comes to rules whilst spraying/spreading chemicals and fertilizer. It is night and day difference.

[@supertekkel1]

The Netherlands is only strict on farming. Industries and cities (sewage) are responsible for pollution in the big rivers of Europe. Only to have farmers blamed for the phosphates in the water... Besides that, in don't believe USA's farmers "spray whatever they want". They are the ones to live of their land, and will be the last to poison it. Chemical technologies have come a long way the last 50 years, dangerous poisoning chemicals are simply no longer needed or even economical feasible. And this goes for European farmers as well.

[@TheZwerfer14]

I haven't said anything about ''spray whatever they want'' but it is a fact that they spray more active substance than we do. But is not what I was talking about. We -in the Netherlands- have strict rules about spreading fertilizer because we have alot of ditches and water around the fields and do really intensive farming and have 0.0 nature left. All the nature in the Netherlands is made by humans. Back to the chemicals. The argument about posioning the land is bullshit, not that is not true but because it has nothing to do with the discussion about yes or no chemicals. I am skeptical about chemicals because of the link between certain chemicals and autism and for example cancer. Also Monsanto and their other big friends have the media in their hands, and nobody seems to understand that.

[@garycarpenter9948]

@@TheZwerfer14 10:28

[@bradleyg1192]

absolutely loved this video. couldn't have picked a better way to end it.

[@farmhandmike]

Cool and interesting video Zach. Thanks for doing this one.

[@highlightsbottleflipnbanfl1847]

Thanks for getting some red and yellow on his channel.

[@nickkercheval2704]

Zach...One farmer to another, GREAT video, particularly the ending....

[@deere2420]

Side business sell bottled tile water to make up for crappy grain prices. 😂

[@Billy_Darley]

no shit! run it thru a basic filter to make it look clear and it should be better than the bottled water he bought from the store.

[@kalebgottbreht4904]

Hi

[@kennethgreen2829]

What I really like about your videos apart from seeing how you do things differently over there compared to how we farm in the UK is your passion for both the land and the environment is clear to see. That come across in all of your videos but I would seriously have the tile drain water tested for pathogenic micro-organisms before I drank any of it. The tests you performed showed your water was well within nitrate tolerances but we all know that there is more in untreated water that could be harmful (nothing to do with your farming practices of course). Your a brave man...

[@jimholland7851]

I appreciate your compassion over

[@cjjack-qk9qp]

Thanks for information. As a farmer i will start testing mine as well. We need to let Tribune know how out of touch they can be. I canceled my subscription from them three yeas ago, too many inaccurate articles

[@alexl8550]

Awesome video. People need to understand that if there is excess phosphorus leaving the field there is a major problem because the only time it will leave is if soil is leaving too!

[@MillennialFarmer]

Alex L stop with your science!!!

[@westernstarlowmax599]

I'm glad you're educating urban America

[@DeMers10]

I’m gonna start filling a bottle out of our outlets now lol I’m glad you’re passionate and informative about drain tile

[@dcmkcbbq]

Remember Ronald Reagan saying the scariest phase in the English language is, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

[@brianwebber7168]

Zach, safety first you should've had a personal flotation device so you didnt drown. Very interesting results.

[@markschumacher7408]

I think your videos are a great pr move for the industry.

[@jeromed9750]

What a way to prove a point and back it up with data!

[@taylormarty5679]

I worked for Lavigne ag service here in rothsay and we used to fill our water jugs with the tile outlet that we were working on at the time

[@paulcoulter7181]

Really awesome of you to drink right out the tile line

[@kevinbrooks1104]

In glad you do this , imagine just not knowing, transparency is a good thing even if the numbers were high . We don't know if you dot test.

[@davidvincent3010]

That's surprising numbers compared to the bottle water. Good info !

[@LuigiLinkMaster]

Love it! I thought only us westerners called em "cricks". People in New York called me a hick and said I had a strong accent.

[@PatrickHusting]

That was really interesting about your water bottle! I think your test was a good one. Nice job.

[@igorpshenichnikov519]

Another awesome video! It's a pleasure to see someone who is not spooked by the modern chemistry and its complex names that are hard for city folk tongues, and their degrees in fine arts;-)

[@bobsmith1814]

I’m impressed you are being a good steward of the land.

[@B.E.Long.63]

Yes , thought you wouldn't ask, I would like 1 of them beautiful home made card board boxes... Peace, God Bless America... Also love the ending...

[@kylekelley213]

Bill Long Box- free Shipping - 49.99

[@pepifarms5009]

Zach I got to say I think this is the greatest video that you've ever produce aisle of the tractors and all the harvesting and all the planting but you really have a thought of preserving your farm and the quality of your farm with that Creek that supports Ducks pheasants Quail fish frogs snakes and that you care so much about your land, and I love the that you keep both sides of the creek Wild for the Wildlife very cool great job I commend you, and the show people that the creek is more pure than actual bottle water awesome

[@pepifarms5009]

Zach I hope you continue doing videos on the creek that would be awesome and in the fall looks like you got a great spot to do some pheasant hunting

[@ericsegars2775]

Sounds like you are getting ready to fill EPA vacancy in DC. You got my vote. Thanks for informing those who just don't know any better.

[@ibenrubbinov5463]

Minnesota letter opener.. thumbs up!

[@LoneWolf-yp2mo]

"That's not a knife" ( as said by Crocodile Dundee !! ) .... lol.

[@85308arizonaboy]

While I know nothing about farming, I can assume that a tile line is like a runoff channel for drainage from other parts of the farm? Used to prevent erosion etc from occuring? I am a new subscriber and absolutely love your videos! You provide so much insight for us city slickers! Thank you for that!

[@MillennialFarmer]

That's correct

[@thedonleroy]

I like your letter opener. Great video. That sure is interesting that the bottled water had more nitrates in it than the creek water. Makes you wonder what you would learn if everything we ate or drank was tested. People seem to think tat farmers don't care what they put in the ground or on the ground. Like you said you & your family are the ones drinking that water so why would you knowingly put harmful stuff in it. I look forward to seeing the results from future testing. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@stevenbeauchamp1320]

Great job Zach!!! Prove to these nutball enviro's that farmers aren't hurting the land and/or water quality. Keep it up!! Also love the box! Lol

[@jamesgoldsmith4805]

I love when it rains you dig a trench and water streams Down (in the fields) satisfying

[@Farmable]

We've never tested the water directly out of our tile. I would like to see what the results are though and compare it to a bottle of water like you did! Really puts things into perspective.

[@flyingbob297]

The water running out of that steel tile looks fantastic.

[@peanutheadslickerthanbadjo9740]

Good job man , I guess it proves we all gotta become worm dirt someday. And it does matter where you are .

[@iafarmer]

A farm that I sharecrop on has a nutrient removal wetland on it. Its basically a 30 acre pond where the crick runs through. Iowa state has testing equipment on each end of it that tests the water coming in and going out of it every day. So far they haven't given out any data on it but I hope they do soon. Nice job showing your results!

[@MillennialFarmer]

Iafarmer that would be interesting!

[@theda850two]

From what I have heard over the years, water that flows through a cattail Marsh is one of the best water purifiers on the planet.

[@gordonw4535]

Point well made Zach 👍 Here in "Bonnie Scotland" we have probably some of the best drinking water there is and folks still go out and buy bottled water..... go figure that one out eh...🤔🤔

[@raypitts4880]

evan if the quility is way below spring tile water levels

[@Flyanb]

I appreciate what you are doing, but the water that’s trouble is the moving stuff. I’d love to see a sample when it’s been raining for a couple days. When the garbage starts to run off. BTW I get my drinking water straight from the MN river in Chaska (post city treating). I know what it looks and smells like when it runs through town. It stinks bad when it’s high and really low. I am glad for the buffers for a lot of reasons. I like to hunt them and I believe it helps. Thanks for the videos and all your hard work.

[@adrianklaver113]

Thanks for this. Higher N in the tile water vs. the creek is probably due to uptake of N by the aquatic and terrestrial plants in and around the creek. The terrestrial plants will tend to lock up N pretty solidly. Aquatic plants are 'leaky' with respect to nutrients so they tend to cycle them more frequently. The P is sufficiently low as to be not concerning. FYI, a sampling tip, when filling a sample container do it entirely under water including capping it. This prevents atmospheric gases from contaminating the sample.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Adrian Klaver thank you!

[@examiner0078]

BOOM!!! Point well made!! Clean water 💧

[@jimholland7851]

Lol I started a comment to you and accidentally punched the send without completing my comment. But here was my point for you. You probably get more input accidentally about your soil chemical status than any commission would ever present. I think you have an extremely good handle on your soil just from your equipment vendor ( John Deere ) that i have seen in discussions in your videos. Your MPL is certainly a huge part of this as his work is not by a wild guess but educated planning. All combined it was good to hear you vent some with the idea of being a good steward to the cause . Jim Hollan

[@wishusknight3009]

This is about what was going on with my families farm many years back. We did water testing several times a year. But it was also more than just nitrates and phosphorus. We were also interested in other potential contaminants. And the water was always decently drinkable.

[@chrisalex8340]

You do a dang good job explaining what most would think is common sense, why in the world would y'all spray and ounce more of those expensive chemicals onto your fields? Not to mention your kids and animals playing in the same water you'd knowingly pollute? That doesn't seem logical.

[@MillennialFarmer]

chris alex absolutely!

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

Figured the test would come out better from the farm I have actual spring water all over our farm that stays cold even in summer that we have pumps on and I know that water is a lot cleaner then the bottled water they call spring water great video

[@shawnfloyd5757]

What a great question that is the water....the end result was at the end. The water is cleaner out of the ground then what goes in a bottle. Great video Zach!

[@claytonbatten7317]

Excellent video.👍🏻👍🏻 brings them doubters into light. We get the same results. Thank you

[@tomgraham5536]

Your natural stream may actually be helping to reduce the nitrate levels whereas the water coming right out of the drain pipe has not had a chance to be filtered by the natural processes in the stream.... However high flows coming off the fields rapidly during and right after a storm may be more highly concentrated..... so you might want to also think about taking some samples during those high flows as well

[@milenarancic7285]

Thats incredible eaven the botyled water got more contamination then the creek great work zack im a farm kid my self grew up on a farm in serbia now i live in fort worth texas and man does ur land remind me of home and i truly miss it

[@sealevel1919]

Facts are facts. Thanks for the footwork.

[@deebodixon494]

I learn so much from your videos!

[@tractorboy31]

Loved the ending. Moms well water is got iron and sulfur but get a garden hose running a bit and thats the best to me

[@kladpapier]

Careful with that tile/creek water, there might be bacteria in there, I don't know if they tested it for that as well. I guess all that vegetation around the creek really helps to filter the water. I did some googling for articles about all this tile stuff, seems to me that the problem isn't just what is in the water, but it is also the fact that water is being drained away. What used to be wetlands that occasionally flooded, is now farmland. Loss of habitat for certain species. Not saying that is what happened on your farm, but it's what I came to understand from reading some articles. Good video, very open and honest test.

[@MillennialFarmer]

kladpapier loss of habitat is also an issue, yes. However, most people dont remember that we farmed more intensively in the 1930s than we do now. Many of those wetland areas were not there 100 years ago, they had been drained already and at some point they were allowed to be refilled before being drained again.

[@augustreil]

You call that a knife, Now this is a KNIFE !!! You crazy drain drinker, that was awesome ! Thanks.

[@circlesfarms]

Where we live the next town over has been drilling wells for residential use and the Nitrates have been up to 16 parts per million

[@nashguy207]

Zach very interesting results. I don't know to enough about it either but I would say you are not doing anything to poison the ground water by these results. Thanks so much for sharing and educating us. If you ever get down to tennessee let me know. I hope you didn't get sick after drinking that water i would more concerned parasites and bacteria being in the water than I would chemicals. LOL Have a great day. God Bless!!!

[@MillennialFarmer]

nashguy207 I'm a little goofy but I'm not sick yet!

[@Farmingfrommyangle.]

Maybe a hinge gate on top of new grill guard may help with higher protection. 2 hald draw bar pins pull out and it swings down out of way when you open hood. Swing back up and pin when loader in use. Can gain another 10 inches to 1ft more of grill guard possibly.. just a quick thought.

[@kalebcrafts4338]

this was my senior research project for college. Very intersting

[@farmerboyjmd]

Interesting video this kind of information should be sent to the Des Moines water works department.

[@JOHNNY74A]

I see that custom box you made goes anywhere!✌️

[@SergiiLegostaev]

*Very cool! Thanks from Ukraine)))*

[@TheBuvaCrew]

Loving all your vids. Keep up the good work!!

[@lucasj3821]

Creeks: you can step across it Streams: you can jump across it River: freakin big

[@tonyozimek2116]

What's a krick?

[@guy_incognito7538]

@@tonyozimek2116 a Minnesota stream

[@calebgalecke4330]

Your such an interesting KZbinr and i love all your vids

[@farmerallis]

Good stuff man. Try taking some samples after a big rain and see what happens.

[@MillennialFarmer]

farmerallis I intend to!

[@awsomeman62]

I think the only thing for next time that could make it better would be if you got a white coat. Maybe take a sample of that WD-40 too and see what levels are in that. Great videos by the way.

[@johnh8192]

New subscriber here. You mentioned in one video you'd like to know; I live in Cocoa, Florida; never been a farmer, but pretty good using gas with ethanol. Good to learn a little about what goes into creating farm products. Keep up the good work; much appreciated -

[@MillennialFarmer]

John Heimberger thanks for watching!

[@woodtick]

Awesome video! Vary interesting. I sure would like to hear a comment from the reporter that wrote the article about tile lines poisoning the environment.

[@mesh1248]

Great video For furthering comparison you should take a sample from your town near bys street water drainage system

[@orlandolopez344]

I was more surprised by the results of the bottled water.... Sweet new truck bra

[@davidfrankhauser1666]

Your fabrication skills are top notch! Do you have a set of plans?

[@MillennialFarmer]

David Frankhauser no, believe it or not I did that without any planning ahead

[@kellydees1938]

I love " I actually made this box myself, this is not a Polaris accesory"!!! Holy hell, I thought that cardboard was factory!! HAHAHAH

[@AirborneRenegade]

Things we deal with all the time, hope you get that tile fixed.

[@adamkruskama8455]

The neighbors tile line probably has high nitrate because it hasn’t settled yet. We see this with newly installed systems they take a while to stabilize. I live in a groundwater management area set in place by the EPA. We have wells with higher than 10 ppm. Problem is after over 15 years of research they still haven’t linked any sources. Majority of wells have improved over the last decade or stayed the same. Lots of row crops left and peppermint production left the area. But when you compare our numbers to the San Joaquin valley we look really good. I think with grid sampling, variable rate application and so forth we are doing lights years from two decades ago one how we manage nutrients. Funny story the highest levels we have recorded for bacteria and nitrates was dna linked to the big flicks of migratory birds that come from Alaska... dang cackler geese...

[@adamkruskama8455]

•flocks

[@greggillund949]

New truck Zack?? Nice.. Keep up the videos...

[@greggillund949]

Sorry for the name typo Zach...

[@3.6roentgen61]

This is a great video however the issue with farm run off isn't that the nitrates and phosphates are too high for drinking, but rather the phosphate and nitrate levels are higher then they would be naturally and this can cause Algee blooms which could then contaminate drinking water.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jayson Я but these tests show otherwise in this instance.

[@mseetherh]

Good for you for taking the time and expense to do that.

[@calebpeters8386]

Good farming practices keep it up!

[@zsoltmolnar3969]

I love your sense of humour 😂

[@rollling7523]

Yur Polaris box ist tha best. Respect.

[@wyattsylvester4772]

I used to live on a farm and man I miss it

[@jeff-lindawells7760]

That was awesome Z keep exposing the hypocrisy that is the anti everything movement.

[@gobil5274]

Don't get me wrong Jeff, I agree with you, but we have hundreds of peach farm ponds that caught over flow off the fields that won't grow bacteria they are so polluted with nitrates and pesticides. I don't wish to see that happen again anywhere.

[@jeff-lindawells7760]

ImpsMyPimp I just read about your water quality issues in Ohio. Had no idea how bad it is. Erosion on the scale you're talking about is mind boggling. There are technologies to mitigate the loss of nutrients applied to the soil, but you must stop the soil from leaving your farm.

[@jeff-lindawells7760]

Cosmo Fitz sorry to hear about that no one wants that to happen.

[@hedge685]

@@TheNemosdaddy --- Lake St. Mary's and others in West and NW Ohio are their own problems because they are about 6' deep. They were all dug out of glacial flat land to service the canal system in the late 1800's. They are dead and support algae blooms each summer because they are shallow and heat to air temp with little circulation from May-Sept. It is not merely a farmer problem, and the environmental coalition refuses to address these facts while screaming for the farmers to be responsible. As with many things in modern America, I chalk it up to 'Everything Being A Problem.'

[@highlightsbottleflipnbanfl1847]

If you give a man a fish You have fed him for a day If you teach a man to fish You have fed him for the rest of his life. But until you teach the people where and how there food is made they will stay hungry for whatever information is shoved in their face. Thankyou for explaining how improving land can decrease nitrates in runoff. Soil natures filter.

[@wbball15]

Great to see results

[@craigwavra3495]

Cool video. Just watched your video today of you baling hay on that field.

[@wrightfarmshoffman8663]

Another great video by a great grain farmer

[@imajudgetoo]

You can also test water by using fish tank test kits. It will test a few water issues. Maybe not as advanced as sending it in.

[@brianbarnes350]

If you could find an empty ditch on your way from field to field, I bet people would enjoy seeing the water flowing out of the drain tile now with all of this rain the Midwest has been getting. It would really put into perspective how much water can filter through the soil and out and how many of the fields would be ponds without tiling. (Good analogy is that the average home owner also has drain tile on their property, connected to a sump pump in their basement.)

[@ShadeTreeGarage]

Awesome video as always! Been watching a while now, I somehow missed this video last year, and remember your mentioning water tests in a newer video. Keep up the good work as always! Also Would love to hear some more about your racing career/Hobby as i am into that! Again! Thanks for all the awesome content!

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

from the tile lines when was the last fertilizer applied and how much rain since thwn have you had? is this water from above or below the tile? water quality out of a tile would be grossly impacted by soil type. your fine soil filters veey well. our large granuals soil would for sure show nutrients in the water after spreading N. no doubt in several miles the ditch water should be clean! tilled soil over tile is going to really slow down infiltration rate so any water making it to tile from the top should be clean.

[@MillennialFarmer]

These samples were taken probably about 6 weeks after fertilizer was applied. All of them below tile outlets. In 1 mile of stream above where the samples were taken there are about 8-10 tile outlets.

[@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754]

in spring right behind tillage passes and fertility passes our soils for sure would show nutrients. there is enough clay that by summer we would never see any nutrients in there because the tilled soil has zero infiltration rate. in theory. now next spring we are going to have to do your test on our outlets!! I do not let this dennis anderson article bother me. typical bad information from the left. look who the population is that reads that paper. loony leftys. I can not see any person reading that article and have a coming to god moment and now angry at farmers. lol he wrote an article for his readers.