Plants you wish to:

• Use to build soil carbon and root mass. Also see Ground.
• Establish and figure out how best to grow. Also see Plant.
• Grow as forage that supports the grazing plan. Also see Animal.
• Use to hold ground without a spray program. Also see Pest.
• Keep going through a dry stretch. Also see Water.
• Grow without inputs that undercut the claim. Also see Product.
• Establish around the infrastructure on site. Also see Utilities.
• Grow on ground you know is clean. Also see Contamination.
• Use to hold a slope and protect the stock. Also see Risk.
• Match to the conditions the project has to survive. Also see Climate.

Plants that:

• Establish in one stratum and fail in the next. Also see Ground.
• Came in thin or never took. Also see Plant.
• The stock hit so hard they never get going. Also see Animal.
• Are getting choked out by something invasive. Also see Pest.
• Quit by August every year. Also see Water.
• Need more input every year to stay in. Also see Product.
• Die out along the roads and the pads. Also see Utilities.
• Came in wrong on ground with a past. Also see Contamination.
• Are gone from the ground you're losing. Also see Risk.
• Can't take the season anymore. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What your cover is doing for soil carbon. Also see Ground.
• Which species actually perform on your ground. Also see Plant.
• Whether your forage supports the stocking you've planned. Also see Animal.
• How to hold ground without a program that costs you. Also see Pest.
• How to keep cover through a dry year. Also see Water.
• Whether your plantings are getting what they need. Also see Product.
• What to plant around the infrastructure on site. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground shows up in the biomass. Also see Contamination.
• What would hold your worst ground. Also see Risk.
• How to plant for the conditions you're actually getting. Also see Climate.

Animals you wish to:

• Graze in a way that builds ground instead of costing it. Also see Ground.
• Feed on what grows there instead of what you haul in. Also see Plant.
• Run at a stocking rate the ground can actually carry. Also see Animal.
• Keep clear of parasites without a chemical program. Also see Pest.
• Water without beating down every pond and seep. Also see Water.
• Keep healthy without inputs that complicate the claim. Also see Product.
• Move without tearing up your access and infrastructure. Also see Utilities.
• Keep off ground you're not sure about. Also see Contamination.
• Keep from concentrating where you can't afford the loss. Also see Risk.
• Hold condition through the heat and the cold both. Also see Climate.

• Ground beat down and bare where they concentrate. Also see Ground.
• Stock that lose condition on cover that looks fine. Also see Plant.
• Stocking that worked before and doesn't now. Also see Animal.
• Parasites or flies you can't get on top of. Also see Pest.
• Animals that quit a water source they used to use. Also see Water.
• A supplement bill that keeps climbing. Also see Product.
• Ground torn up along every lane and gate. Also see Utilities.
• Health issues that follow certain ground. Also see Contamination.
• Concentration that's costing you soil where it hurts. Also see Risk.
• Animals that can't hold condition through the heat. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your grazing is building soil carbon or spending it. Also see Ground.
• Whether your forage feeds them what it looks like it does. Also see Plant.
• What your real carrying capacity is. Also see Animal.
• What's actually behind your parasite pressure. Also see Pest.
• What your pond water is doing to your stock. Also see Water.
• Whether your mineral program matches your ground. Also see Product.
• Whether your layout is costing you ground. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground is reaching your animals. Also see Contamination.
• What your grazing pattern is costing you in soil. Also see Risk.
• How many grazing days a changing season costs you. Also see Climate.

Pressure you wish to:

• Starve out by fixing the ground it favors. Also see Ground.
• Keep off the cover the project depends on. Also see Plant.
• Keep out of your herd. Also see Animal.
• Break the cycle on for good. Also see Pest.
• Control without putting anything in your water. Also see Water.
• Handle without a program that undercuts the claim. Also see Product.
• Keep out of the buildings and the equipment. Also see Utilities.
• Manage without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Contamination.
• Stop before it takes ground you're counting on. Also see Risk.
• Get ahead of as the seasons stretch. Also see Climate.

• The same pressure in the same ground every year. Also see Ground.
• Something taking your cover faster than it establishes. Also see Plant.
• Parasites or flies your stock can't get away from. Also see Animal.
• Weeds that don't die at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• A pond that turns green and stays green. Also see Water.
• A spray program you're locked into. Also see Product.
• Rodents in the shop, the barn, or the feed. Also see Utilities.
• Pressure that got worse the more you sprayed. Also see Contamination.
• An invasive taking ground the project is counting on. Also see Risk.
• Pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your pest problem is really a soil problem. Also see Ground.
• Why the pressure hits one stratum and not the next. Also see Plant.
• What's actually bothering your stock. Also see Animal.
• What's driving resistance on your place. Also see Pest.
• What's turning your water green. Also see Water.
• How much of your control spending is preventable. Also see Product.
• What's drawing pests into your buildings. Also see Utilities.
• What all that spraying has left in your ground. Also see Contamination.
• What's coming next based on what's here now. Also see Risk.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Climate.

Water you wish to:

• Get into the ground and hold it there. Also see Ground.
• Keep your cover going through the dry stretch. Also see Plant.
• Keep clean for the stock. Also see Animal.
• Keep from breeding what bites your herd. Also see Pest.
• Understand across the whole project area. Also see Water.
• Improve before it carries your inputs. Also see Product.
• Pump or pipe to where you need it. Also see Utilities.
• Know is clean for everything downstream of it. Also see Contamination.
• Keep from taking your ground with it. Also see Risk.
• Have enough of in a dry year. Also see Climate.

• Water that runs off before it soaks in. Also see Ground.
• Cover that dries out while the pond stays full. Also see Plant.
• Stock that won't drink from a source. Also see Animal.
• Ponds breeding mosquitos and everything else. Also see Pest.
• Water with a smell, a color, or a scum that's changed. Also see Water.
• Water that leaves crust and scale on everything. Also see Product.
• Pumping costs climbing with no more water to show for it. Also see Utilities.
• Water that changed after something upstream changed. Also see Contamination.
• A creek taking your ground a foot at a time. Also see Risk.
• Water that isn't there when you need it. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your water is helping or hurting your soil. Also see Ground.
• Why the wet ground performs worse than the dry. Also see Plant.
• What your pond water is doing to your stock. Also see Animal.
• What's turning your pond green every year. Also see Pest.
• What's actually in your water. Also see Water.
• What your water does to the products you apply. Also see Product.
• What your water is costing you to move. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything upstream is reaching your project. Also see Contamination.
• How much ground your creek takes a year. Also see Risk.
• How far your water would go in a drought. Also see Climate.

Products you wish to:

• Stop buying because the ground can supply it. Also see Ground.
• Time to the cover instead of the label. Also see Plant.
• Match to what your herd actually needs. Also see Animal.
• Swap for something that doesn't build resistance. Also see Pest.
• Keep out of your water. Also see Water.
• Prove out before you commit the project to it. Also see Product.
• Store and handle right on site. Also see Utilities.
• Replace with something cleaner. Also see Contamination.
• Use without drift or runoff onto a neighbor. Also see Risk.
• Have work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Climate.

• Lime or amendment that never moved anything. Also see Ground.
• Fertilizer that doesn't show up in the plant. Also see Plant.
• A mineral program the stock won't touch. Also see Animal.
• Herbicide that doesn't kill at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• Product showing up in your pond or your well. Also see Water.
• An amendment you can't show did anything. Also see Product.
• Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Utilities.
• Residue in the ground from a program you inherited. Also see Contamination.
• Spray drifting where it shouldn't go. Also see Risk.
• Product that works in a normal year and fails in a dry one. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What your amendments are actually doing to the soil. Also see Ground.
• How much of what you apply the cover ever sees. Also see Plant.
• Whether what you're feeding matches what they're missing. Also see Animal.
• Whether you're solving the pressure or feeding it. Also see Pest.
• Where your products end up when it rains. Also see Water.
• What your program costs you per acre. Also see Product.
• What you're storing and handling on site. Also see Utilities.
• What's built up after years of the same program. Also see Contamination.
• What a verifier or a buyer would say about your inputs. Also see Risk.
• How your program should change with the season you're getting. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Site or build knowing what's underneath it. Also see Ground.
• Plant around so it works with the operation. Also see Plant.
• Lay out so the stock don't tear it up. Also see Animal.
• Keep rodents and pests out of. Also see Pest.
• Get water to without a bill you can't explain. Also see Water.
• Store your chemical and your feed in right. Also see Product.
• Run cheaper and stop babysitting. Also see Utilities.
• Know is healthy for the people working in it. Also see Contamination.
• Keep out of the water's way. Also see Risk.
• Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Climate.

• A building or a pad on ground that won't hold. Also see Ground.
• Runoff off the roof or the pad killing what's below it. Also see Plant.
• Ground torn up along every lane and gate. Also see Animal.
• Rodents in the shop, the barn, or the feed. Also see Pest.
• A water bill with no leak you can find. Also see Water.
• Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Product.
• A power bill that doesn't match what you're running. Also see Utilities.
• Somebody who feels rough every time they're in a certain building. Also see Contamination.
• A building that takes water every few years. Also see Risk.
• Cooling that runs constantly and never catches up. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What's under the pad before you build on it. Also see Ground.
• What to plant around your buildings to make them cheaper to run. Also see Plant.
• Whether your layout is costing you ground. Also see Animal.
• What's drawing pests into your buildings. Also see Pest.
• Where your water is actually going. Also see Water.
• What you're storing and where. Also see Product.
• Where your energy is actually going. Also see Utilities.
• Whether the air in your buildings is doing your people any favors. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your buildings sit where they should. Also see Risk.
• What it'd cost to make a building comfortable year round. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Know is clean before it enters a project. Also see Ground.
• Know is clean before you plant into it. Also see Plant.
• Know is safe to turn stock out on. Also see Animal.
• Fix without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Pest.
• Prove clean before it moves downstream. Also see Water.
• Replace with a cleaner product. Also see Product.
• Know is healthy for the people working on it. Also see Utilities.
• Document before anybody asks. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before a verifier finds it. Also see Risk.
• Recover as the weather works on it. Also see Climate.

• Ground nothing will grow on and no reason you can find. Also see Ground.
• Cover that came in wrong on ground with a past. Also see Plant.
• Health issues in stock that follow certain ground. Also see Animal.
• Ground that got worse the more you treated it. Also see Pest.
• Water that changed after something upstream changed. Also see Water.
• Residue from a program somebody ran before you. Also see Product.
• An old fuel or chemical area near the buildings. Also see Utilities.
• Project ground with a history nobody wrote down. Also see Contamination.
• Runoff or drift coming onto the project. Also see Risk.
• Buried debris that works its way up every wet year. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What this ground was used for before the project. Also see Ground.
• Whether anything in the ground shows up in the biomass. Also see Plant.
• Whether anything in the ground reaches your stock. Also see Animal.
• What all that spraying left behind. Also see Pest.
• What's in the runoff coming onto the project. Also see Water.
• What years of the same program built up. Also see Product.
• Whether the old site near the shop matters. Also see Utilities.
• Whether your ground would hold up to scrutiny. Also see Contamination.
• What a verifier or a buyer would find. Also see Risk.
• What a wet year turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Stop losing to erosion before it costs you the claim. Also see Ground.
• Plant to hold the ground you're counting on. Also see Plant.
• Manage so grazing doesn't cost you where it hurts. Also see Animal.
• Stop at the fence line before it spreads. Also see Pest.
• Get out of the water's reach. Also see Water.
• Use without drift or runoff liability. Also see Product.
• Site out of harm's way. Also see Utilities.
• Clear before the ground enters a project. Also see Contamination.
• Know about before a verifier or a buyer does. Also see Risk.
• Build to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Climate.

• Ground eroding out from under the project. Also see Ground.
• Cover gone from ground you're counting on. Also see Plant.
• Grazing pressure costing you soil where it matters. Also see Animal.
• An invasive taking project ground. Also see Pest.
• Ground that floods out the same acres every few years. Also see Water.
• Spray that drifted where it shouldn't have. Also see Product.
• A building or a well in the wrong spot. Also see Utilities.
• A facility upstream you've wondered about. Also see Contamination.
• A regulation, an easement, or a tenure issue you found out about late. Also see Risk.
• Weather events that hit harder than they used to. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• How much ground you lose a year and where it goes. Also see Ground.
• What would hold your worst ground. Also see Plant.
• Whether a protected species changes how you can manage. Also see Animal.
• What's moving onto the project from off it. Also see Pest.
• Whether your low ground is a liability or an asset. Also see Water.
• What your program looks like to a verifier. Also see Product.
• Whether your infrastructure sits where it should. Also see Utilities.
• What's actually upstream or downstream of you. Also see Contamination.
• Whether your ground is regulated or encumbered in ways you don't know. Also see Risk.
• What a hundred-year rain does to your project now. Also see Climate.

Something you wish to:

• Hold water through a dry August. Also see Ground.
• Plant to match the conditions you actually have. Also see Plant.
• Keep your stock in condition through the heat. Also see Animal.
• Stay ahead of as the pest seasons stretch. Also see Pest.
• Have enough water when it stops raining. Also see Water.
• Have work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Product.
• Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Utilities.
• Recover as the weather works on it. Also see Contamination.
• Build to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Risk.
• Stop hinging on the rain coming right. Also see Climate.

• Ground that bakes hard and won't take water. Also see Ground.
• Cover that shuts down in the heat every year now. Also see Plant.
• Stock that can't hold condition through the summer. Also see Animal.
• Pests showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Pest.
• Rain that comes all at once or not at all. Also see Water.
• Product that works in a normal year and fails in a dry one. Also see Product.
• Cooling that runs constantly and never catches up. Also see Utilities.
• Winters that don't kill what they used to. Also see Contamination.
• Weather that hits harder than it used to. Also see Risk.
• A season that's moved on you. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Why your ground dries out faster than the reference site. Also see Ground.
• How to plant for the season you actually get. Also see Plant.
• How many grazing days a changing season costs you. Also see Animal.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Pest.
• Whether your soil could hold you through a drought. Also see Water.
• How your program should change with the weather you're getting. Also see Product.
• What it'd cost to make a building comfortable year round. Also see Utilities.
• What a wet year turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Contamination.
• What a bad year is really costing you. Also see Risk.
• How much of a bad year is weather and how much is soil. Also see Climate.