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Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2017

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managing your soil<br />

Birds of all varieties can be found<br />

on the family farm. Terri McCulley<br />

farms the land that has been in her<br />

family since 1867.<br />

eastern iowa farmer photos /<br />

brooke taylor<br />

diverse <strong>Iowa</strong> landscape.<br />

“If you look at <strong>Iowa</strong>, it’s a collection<br />

of different geologies,” said Ken Wacha,<br />

a post-doctoral researcher at the National<br />

Laboratory for Agriculture and the<br />

Environment at <strong>Iowa</strong> State University in<br />

Ames. “There’s driftless country, there’s<br />

really rolling hills, there’s some really<br />

steep slopes, and there’s some really flat<br />

ground.”<br />

Looking over different landscapes, he<br />

said, you can see the how nature impacts<br />

soils – past, present and future.<br />

“You can see gulleys, waterways and<br />

streams that form because of the water patterns,”<br />

he said, adding that the high bluffs<br />

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spring <strong>2017</strong> | <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> 63

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