Speaking at Grand Farm’s Cultivate Conference, Hefty Seed Company CEO Brian Hefty talked about the importance of soil health. “I think it’s important to go back to the basics to say where does it all start? What’s our number one asset? At the end of the day, we’ve got to make that soil healthier because then it’s more productive, we raise more crop, and then there are more dollars for everyone, for the farmer and for industry.” Drain tiles play an important role in soil health. ” A lot of times, we see 40 percent, sometimes 60 percent erosion reduction when there is drain tile there, but an equally big factor is if you want better soil health, you have to have air in that soil to keep all those aerobic microbes alive. There’s so much we don’t understand yet about agriculture, but we’ve got to work together with our soil, and we can’t do that when we keep flooding it out.”
