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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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