On The Farm: Farmers & Conservationists
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| 9/30/2009 |
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| Richard Kinzley planted his first crop in 1943. He took a few years off to serve his country in the Korean War, but came back to Renville County to farm. "It`s always changing. Life is always changing and you got to go along with the changes or otherwise you`ll stay back with the horses,” says Richard. At 84 years old, he is still active in farming even after he passed the operation off to his son David. "He was instrumental in showing me the ways of farming,” says David Kinzley. It wasn`t just farm machinery that Richard gave to his son, it was also the wisdom to protect and care for the land and this year the Kinzley`s are being recognized for their conservation practices by the Renville County National Resources Conservation Service. "Over the past few years we`ve had several achievement award winners that were sons of father`s that they just continued that tradition of conservation,” says Emery Duben, District Conservationist. The Kinzley`s have changed the way they farm to conserve the land and help the environment. More than a decade ago they stopped the practice of summer-fallow, which is a practice of resting the land by not planting anything on it for a year, but without planting, dirt has the opportunity to erode. Now they plant every acre and control it with chemicals also saving moisture. "That was a practice that lasted many years. It`s gone now and that`s probably a good thing,” says Richard. And while most farmers are tearing down tree rows to squeeze every acre out, the Kinzley`s are planting trees. This year alone, David planted four and a half miles. "I need to retire and I`d like to have some place to hunt. We`re going to do some wildlife planting, we have one now and there`s going to be a couple more,” says David. Some people that don`t understand agriculture believe farmers only care about making a buck off the land, what they don`t perhaps realize, is that farmers need to be good stewards of the land before they can make money from it. Contact your local county soil conservation office to learn about the CPS program. Farmers can make an extra per acre profit off their land by signing up and promising to make some changes in their operations to improve conservation. |
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