Norton, Kansas was at the heart of the devastating 2011 & 2012 years of drought.

Michael Thompson, learning from Gabe Brown, is now regenerating his soils with no-till and cover-crops practices coupled with Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing - giving his farm resilience for all the drought years since.

His exemplary work was given the Kansas Farm Bureau Natural Resources Award.

“The drought was basically the adversity we came up against. We weren’t willing to sell all our cattle and our livelihood, so we decided we had to do something about it. So we started subdividing and changing our grazing strategy, and it’s been good to us during the drought.”

About this farmer:
Michael Thompson
Kansas
25 inches yearly rainfall

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