As a kid, Twin Brooks farmer David Kruger watched his grandfather fight erosion using a very hands-on method.

“I remember him going to the ditch along Highway 12 and hauling the dirt out of the ditch and back onto the field with a loader,” Kruger said.

That was a powerful memory, but Kruger wasn’t thinking about erosion when he first learned about no-till farming practices years later as a student at Lake Area Technical Institute, now named Lake Area Technical College.

Instead, he was thinking about moisture and long days of picking rocks.

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