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By: Bill Spiegel
Details matter.
For years, that’s been the message Lee Briese shares with the farmers for whom he is a certified crop advisor. It’s those little details that can make a good crop great, says Briese, who works for Centrol Crop Consulting in Edgely, North Dakota.
It’s also the little details that turned Briese from a yo-yo novice to a yo-yo trickster in the weeks leading up to his presentation at the Dakota Innovators and Research Technology Workshop in Fargo Dec. 10-11. The parallels between adoption of soil health practices and learning yo-yo tricks are similar – once you understand them.
“Why a yo-yo?” Briese asked a crowd of 250 farmers in the group’s keynote talk. “Because they are fun. And after the year we’ve all had, I thought a little bit of fun was worth it,” he says.
Everyone can learn to use a yo-yo. “It doesn’t take real special talents or real special acumen,” says Briese. It just takes practice, which Briese did incessantly for months.
Improving soil health is similar: if you farm, you can improve your soil. “I think we can all move forward,” Briese says. The resources are readily available through meetings, by reading research or watching lectures on the Internet or by talking with others. But you have to take the initiative – just like he did by learning how to yo-yo.
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