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Finding a
Different Way by David Morris
Twenty years ago, Jack farmed like most other farmers, using a
moldboard plow and lots of secondary tillage. The turning point for him came in the spring
of 1981. After his fine sandy loam fields were worked and all ready to plant, the Blenheim
area was hit with a torrential downpour of rain - about four inches in half an hour, as
Jack recalls. The erosion caused by that one storm made him begin to question the way he
worked the land. Jack remembers thinking, "I’ve got to find a different way to
do tillage. I can’t continue to do what I have been doing and still have a
farm." Other February magazine features:
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grain corn, seed corn, winter wheat and soybeans for three
different types of markets: seed, oil and human consumption. They also do some
share-cropping, contract farming and custom field work.