A Lesson from the Past
When you ask a producer, “How much rain did you get?” the answer usually comes with a catch: “We got an inch—but it came too fast and most of it ran off,” or “Only half an inch—but we sure could use more.”
But the real question isn’t how much rain fell—it's how much your soil held onto. That’s the water that actually feeds your crops.
I grew up farming in northeast Nebraska in the 1960s. Like most p…