Grand Forks Soil Conservation District
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Grand Forks Soil Conservation District
@SoilForks
To provide local leadership in the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources through partnerships with individuals, businesses, organizations.
Grand Forks, ND Beigetreten Ocak 2019
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The NDCDEA scholarships are available again this year. Please visit our website gfscd.org to download forms! Please let any young adults know about this opportunity!
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Last week we presented the Draxton Family with the 2023 Conservation Achievement Award. The Ben & Misti Draxton family raise around 400 cattle on 1200 acres of pastureland in central Grand Forks County.
Congratulations to the Draxton family!
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This event just so happens to land on #tillagetuesday, but since it’s #lent we are going to refrain from tillage. Please join us combat #tillagetuesday and help spread the word, thanks @agronomist09 @RocknRollAgrnmy @NDsoilhealth @bmreadel @okkefromuskogee @WalshSoil @SoilForks
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The District is looking for a new Technician to join our team. If you are you know anybody interested pass it along!
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The NDCDEA is offering a scholarship for high school and college students. Applicants eligible will be pursuing agricultural/ natural resource management related field. Applications must be mailed by February 24th. Application found on our website: gfscd.org
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Growing trees at the Larimore Arboretum!
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The Grand Forks County SCD is offering two $1000.00 scholarships in 2022. Eligible applicants must be a high school senior with residence in Grand Forks County. Submit forms by April 1st, 2022. You can download the application on our website gfscd.org
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Nice looking cover crops interseeded!!
#covercrops #conservation #interseed @NDSUsoilhealth @NDSUAgKatelyn
Darrin Schmidt@ISchmidtFaced
North Dakota, USA 🇺🇸 English
Picture says it all!!
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Excellent way of reasoning things out....
Progress.....but always looking ahead to how we can do better.
Ryan Heiniger@FarmrHuntr
I've said it before but the best time to scout your fields is after a big rain event. We've had 2.5" since midnight. This table top flat corn field was vertical tilled and planted with 1 bushel/acre of cereal rye. Some residue did move. In the quest for zero soil loss, a thread
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Excited to see soil clinging to the rye roots this year! Living roots will keep the microbes happy all winter. #soilhealth #covercrops #notill
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Baby Rye coming up. Hopefully combat the Water hemp n Kochia in this field
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For those of you with questions, Aaron sent a lengthy email today laying out his crop program for this particular field. Rather than post 15-20 tweets, we opted to create a blog post in it's entirety.
You can read his reponse here: ccsin.info/2XfrKZ5
CCSI@CCSI_IN
These photos are from Aaron Krueger, SW IN Yield averaged 260 bu/A. By far the best corn ever raised in that field since the family started farming it. Yield equal or better than tillage neighbors'. It's pretty safe to say they made more $/A. Blew him and his grandpa away.
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