Here's an item you should be able to check fairly easily - what's in the watershed? Is the land uphill from the pond, from which rain water runs into it, on the small farm's property (due you control you own destiny)? If not - what's in the watershed? Woods (good)? Hayfields/pasture (pretty good)? Plowed fields (fair)? A golf course or the feedlot from a hog farm (lousy)?


"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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