Local comment - Oct. 15, 2009

The accompanying picture is of Jeremy Ensley seeding chemical fallow this fall. They follow this machine with a harrow. It makes pretty good mulch on the soil surface soil.

We must stop soil erosion.

Conventionally cultivated summer fallow is the reason for the erosion problem in the Palouse.

If you question that statement, in the spring of the year notice that the fields that have those terribly eroded hills are in fields that have been conventionally summer fallowed the summer before.

We have learned a way to do it and not have that happen.

It involves not cultivating the land and killing th...