Let’s try this again
We are still trying to get a truck, trailer and grapple dedicated to Trees2Products. Using the farm gear has kept us from achieving all we can. Slow but sure and steady wins the race, but we’ll see if we can…
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Soil
Biochar and Animal Confinement
I suffer from anosmia. Meaning I can’t smell. Not sour milk. Not skunk aftermath. Not the manure in the stock yard. But I have people in my life with over active olfactory sensory neurons. They smell it very well and…
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A Bus Tour Came
Wednesday August 8, 2018 was a history maker. A UNL Extension tour visited Slezak Ag & Natural Resources and Trees2Products. We shared how we got here, why we believe in sustainable utilization of our natural resources and what we are doing to…
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Another dust bowl?
There were some windy days across the plains in April. In some places, the wind blown soil became a dust cloud and created extremely limited visitility. That led to accidents in Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Low visibility on Interstate 80…
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Biochar – Future of Sustainable agriculture
Explanation of biochar – it’s history and just how it helps build soil and improve plant growth in a TEDx by Lauren Hale, when she was a PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Her research was on “the suitability of biochar…
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Benefits abound
Saw this biochar benefit graphic on the website for the International Biochar Initiative “Biochar is a solid material obtained from the carbonisation of biomass. Biochar may be added to soils with the intention to improve soil functions and to reduce…
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Biochar for soil and personal health
So many uses for biochar. It can improve your soil and therefore crop growth, but can it also reduce health care costs? This from a research study at Rice University. When I first saw the headline, I thought they were…
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Website redesign
With our new branding comes a redesigned website. We moved it from a custom coded simple site to a content management system to make marketing a bit simpler. Marketing tips learned from SCORE Mentors in Dallas included Digital Marketing from…
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