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Lenawee County’s Center for Excellence marks 30 years of conservation research in WLEB

A third-generation no-till farmer says hosting on-farm demonstration plots for the past three decades has helped identify what conservation practices are ideal for the Western Lake Erie Basin. Blaine Baker farms in Clayton, Michigan, along the Ohio border, in a community named for its clay soils.

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A third-generation no-till farmer says hosting on-farm demonstration plots for the past three decades has helped identify what conservation practices are ideal for the Western Lake Erie Basin.

Blaine Baker farms in Clayton, Michigan, along the Ohio border, in a community named for its clay soils.

He tells Brownfield no-till growers in the region wanted […]

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A third-generation no-till farmer says hosting on-farm demonstration plots for the past three decades has helped identify what conservation practices are ideal for the Western Lake Erie Basin. Blaine Baker farms in Clayton, Michigan, along the Ohio border, in a community named for its clay soils. He tells Brownfield no-till growers in the region wanted […]

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