Conservation tour will include soil bucket demo, next Wednesday

Many of our readers may be familiar with the term bucket list for a list of activities they would like to participate in, places to see or things to acquire.

Now, Adam Bauer a soil scientist and the Milford Lake WRAPS coordinator with the Kansas Alliance for Wetlands & Streams (KAWS), is promoting the use of a soil bucket to conduct what he describes as easy in-field tests.With the contents of a bucket, farmers will be able to check the infiltration of their soils, take the temperature of their soils and check their soils aggregate stability. They can learn if their soils have the structure ne...