Soil Organic Matter (SOM)

Soil organic matter makes up a small part of all soils. In this area of Nebraska, cropland fields will average around 3% organic matter. SOM is a small but powerful part of any soil. SOM can be thought of as the Soil Bank where…

Tea Time compost style

Cows grazing grass, all part of a regenerative process.

Hazelnut M & M’s

Saturday morning, drinking coffee, thinking about tasks to do on the farm when on the T.V. a Hazelnut M & M’s (R) advertisement appears. Hazelnut M & M’s? Doug had never seen this ad before. This seemed odd, as one of Doug’s tasks for…

New Pasture for New Year

Ready for the new year? Do you have goals or ideas to try something new in 2019?  We hope you do!  At DS Family Farm we are always in change mode or trying to be. When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. Benjamin Franklin Over…

Resting Degraded Land

In a earlier post we pointed out that much of our pastures are in a Degraded State.  This is just a fact, most of the agricultural lands of the United States have been “mined” for over 100 years, grasslands included.  The first step in…