Plants you wish to:

• Serve as a means to restore soil. Also see Ground.
• Promote and figure out how best to grow. Also see Plant.
• Increase yields for while reducing inputs. Also see Product.
• Drive away pests. Also see Pest.
• Use as forage for your livestock. Also see Animal.
• Thrive on less water. Also see Water.
• Shade a building and cut your cooling bill. Also see Utilities.
• Clean up a piece of ground. Also see Contamination.
• Hold a bank and stop erosion. Also see Risk.
• Adapt to a particular climate. Also see Climate.

Plants that:

• Struggle to survive in certain areas and not others. Also see Ground.
• Are diseased or sickly. Also see Plant.
• Need more inputs as time goes on. Also see Product.
• Are plagued by invasive bugs, animals, or other plants. Also see Pest.
• The livestock have stopped eating. Also see Animal.
• Seem dried out and aren't taking in enough water. Also see Water.
• Are dying where the runoff comes off the shop or the drive. Also see Utilities.
• Came back wrong after something got spilled or sprayed. Also see Contamination.
• Are gone from the bank where you're losing ground. Also see Risk.
• Aren't adapting well to changes in climate over time. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Why plants grow better in some areas of your field but not others. Also see Ground.
• Which plants are best for your land. Also see Plant.
• If your crops have or are getting enough nutrients. Also see Product.
• How to reduce pest pressure through what you plant. Also see Pest.
• Which plants are best for your livestock. Also see Animal.
• How to reduce water usage. Also see Water.
• What to plant around your buildings to make them cheaper to run. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in your ground shows up in your crop. Also see Contamination.
• How best to plan for a restoration project. Also see Risk.
• How to plant for your typical climate. Also see Climate.

Animals you wish to:

• Graze or work your ground in a way that builds it. Also see Ground.
• Finish or feed on what grows there alone. Also see Plant.
• Keep healthy without the supplement bill. Also see Product.
• Keep clear of parasites and flies. Also see Pest.
• Run more of, or draw more of, onto the same acres. Also see Animal.
• Water without beating down every pond bank. Also see Water.
• House or shelter somewhere healthy to be. Also see Utilities.
• Keep off ground you're not sure about. Also see Contamination.
• Keep safe from what's on or around the place. Also see Risk.
• Keep in condition through heat and cold. Also see Climate.

• Pastures and bedding ground beat down and bare. Also see Ground.
• Animals that lose condition on cover that looks fine. Also see Plant.
• Supplement or feed costs that keep climbing. Also see Product.
• Parasites or flies you can't get on top of. Also see Pest.
• Stocking or wildlife numbers that worked before and don't now. Also see Animal.
• Animals that won't drink from a source they used to. Also see Water.
• Lighting in a barn or a shelter that seems to bother them. Also see Utilities.
• Health issues that follow certain ground. Also see Contamination.
• Protected species or wildlife complicating how you operate. Also see Risk.
• Animals that can't hold condition through the heat anymore. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether what's grazing your place is building your soil or costing you it. Also see Ground.
• If your forage and cover feed what's on your place what it looks like it does. Also see Plant.
• If your mineral or feed program matches your ground. Also see Product.
• What's really behind your parasite pressure. Also see Pest.
• What your ground could really carry or hold. Also see Animal.
• What your pond water is doing to what drinks from it. Also see Water.
• If your barn air is doing your animals any favors. Also see Utilities.
• Whether anything in the ground is reaching your animals. Also see Contamination.
• What the wildlife on your place means for the rest of your operation. Also see Risk.
• How many grazing days or how much habitat a changing season costs you. Also see Climate.

Products you wish to:

• Stop buying because the ground can supply it. Also see Ground.
• Time better to the crop. Also see Plant.
• Get more response out of per dollar. Also see Product.
• Replace with something that doesn't build resistance. Also see Pest.
• Match to what your herd actually needs. Also see Animal.
• Keep out of your water. Also see Water.
• Store and handle safer around your buildings. Also see Utilities.
• Replace with something cleaner. Also see Contamination.
• Apply without drift or runoff onto a neighbor. Also see Risk.
• Work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Climate.

• Lime that never moved the pH. Also see Ground.
• Fertilizer that doesn't seem to show up in the plant. Also see Plant.
• Products that cost more every year while yield stays flat. Also see Product.
• Herbicide that doesn't kill at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• A dewormer or a mineral that isn't doing what it used to. Also see Animal.
• A pond or tank treatment that never clears it up. Also see Water.
• A cleaner or a treatment that leaves the shop hard to breathe in. 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 products are actually doing once they hit the soil. Also see Ground.
• How much of what you apply the crop ever sees. Also see Plant.
• What your program is costing you per bushel or per head. Also see Product.
• Whether you're feeding the plant or feeding a pest problem. Also see Pest.
• If what you're giving your animals matches what they're missing. Also see Animal.
• Where your products end up when it rains. Also see Water.
• What's in the products you use around your people. Also see Utilities.
• What's built up after years of the same program. Also see Contamination.
• What a buyer or a program would say about your products. Also see Risk.
• How your program should change with the season you're getting. Also see Climate.

Pressure you wish to:

• Starve out by fixing the ground it favors. Also see Ground.
• Keep off your crop. Also see Plant.
• Handle with fewer passes and less product. Also see Product.
• Break the cycle on for good. Also see Pest.
• Keep out of your herd. Also see Animal.
• Control without putting anything in your water. Also see Water.
• Keep out of your barns and shops. Also see Utilities.
• Manage without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Contamination.
• Stop before it crosses a fence and becomes your neighbor's. Also see Risk.
• Get ahead of as the seasons shift. Also see Climate.

• The same pest in the same field every season. Also see Ground.
• Disease that shows up in your crop regardless of rotation. Also see Plant.
• Control costs eating the margin. Also see Product.
• Weeds that don't die at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
• Parasites or flies your herd can't get away from. Also see Animal.
• An algae bloom in the pond every summer. Also see Water.
• 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 faster than you can fight it. Also see Risk.
• Pests showing up earlier and staying later than they used to. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your pest problem is really a soil problem. Also see Ground.
• Why the pressure is in one field and not the next. Also see Plant.
• How much of your pest bill is preventable. Also see Product.
• What's driving resistance on your place. Also see Pest.
• What's actually bothering your livestock. Also see Animal.
• What's turning your pond green. Also see Water.
• What's drawing pests to your buildings. Also see Utilities.
• What all that spraying has left behind. 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 soil instead of off the field. Also see Ground.
• Stretch further across your crop. Also see Plant.
• Improve before it carries your inputs. Also see Product.
• Keep from breeding what bites your stock. Also see Pest.
• Keep clean for the herd. Also see Animal.
• Use less of for the same yield. Also see Water.
• Pump at a lower cost. Also see Utilities.
• Know is safe for your family and your operation. 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.
• Irrigation that doesn't produce like it should. Also see Plant.
• Well water that leaves a crust on everything. Also see Product.
• A pond that turns green every summer. Also see Pest.
• Livestock that won't drink from a source. Also see Animal.
• Water with a smell, a color, or a taste that's changed. Also see Water.
• 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 field a foot at a time. Also see Risk.
• Water that isn't there when you need it and comes all at once when you don't. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• Whether your water is helping or hurting your soil. Also see Ground.
• Why irrigated ground performs worse than dryland in spots. Also see Plant.
• What your water is doing to the products you apply. Also see Product.
• What's turning your pond green every year. Also see Pest.
• What your pond water is doing to your livestock. Also see Animal.
• What's actually in your well. Also see Water.
• What your water is costing you to move. Also see Utilities.
• If anything upstream is reaching your water. 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.

• A pad or a site you wish to build on knowing what's under it. Also see Ground.
• Landscaping around your buildings you wish to work for you, not against you. Also see Plant.
• Chemical storage you wish to handle right. Also see Product.
• Barns and shops you wish to keep rodents and pests out of. Also see Pest.
• A barn you wish to be healthy for the stock in it. Also see Animal.
• A water bill you wish to cut without cutting operation. Also see Water.
• Systems you wish to stop babysitting. Also see Utilities.
• A house on the place you wish to know is healthy for your family. Also see Contamination.
• Buildings you wish to keep out of the water's way. Also see Risk.
• A shop you wish to be workable in January and July. Also see Climate.

• A building sitting on ground that won't stay put. Also see Ground.
• Runoff off the roof or the drive killing what's planted below it. Also see Plant.
• Product stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Product.
• Rodents in the shop, the barn, or the feed. Also see Pest.
• Lighting in a barn that seems to bother the livestock. Also see Animal.
• A major water bill with no leak you can find. Also see Water.
• An electric 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 floods or 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.
• If your chemical handling would pass a look. Also see Product.
• What's drawing pests into your buildings. Also see Pest.
• If your barn lighting is doing your stock any favors. Also see Animal.
• Where your water is actually going. Also see Water.
• Where your energy is actually going. Also see Utilities.
• If 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.

• Ground you wish to put back into production after a spill. Also see Ground.
• A crop you wish to grow clean on ground with a past. Also see Plant.
• A chemical program you wish to come off of safely. Also see Product.
• Pests you wish to get rid of without adding more chemicals. Also see Pest.
• Pasture you wish to know is safe to turn animals out on. Also see Animal.
• Water you wish to prove clean before it hits anything. Also see Water.
• A house or a well you wish to site with confidence. Also see Utilities.
• Ground or crops you wish to certify clean for a buyer or a program. Also see Contamination.
• A place you wish to hand to the next generation without a problem attached. Also see Risk.
• Ground you wish to recover as the weather works on it. Also see Climate.

• A patch nothing will grow on and no reason you can find. Also see Ground.
• A crop that came back wrong after something got spilled. Also see Plant.
• Residue in the ground from a program you inherited. Also see Product.
• Ground that got worse the more you treated it. Also see Pest.
• Herd health issues that follow certain ground. Also see Animal.
• Water that changed after something upstream changed. Also see Water.
• An old fuel or chemical area near your buildings. Also see Utilities.
• A field with a history nobody wrote down. Also see Contamination.
• Drift or runoff coming onto your place from a neighbor. Also see Risk.
• Buried debris the plow keeps turning up. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

• What the last owner did with this ground. Also see Ground.
• If anything in your soil would show up in your crop. Also see Plant.
• What years of the same program built up. Also see Product.
• What all that spraying left behind. Also see Pest.
• Whether anything in the ground reaches your animals. Also see Animal.
• What's in the runoff coming onto your place. Also see Water.
• If the old pit or dump site near the barn matters. Also see Utilities.
• Whether your ground would pass if somebody tested it. Also see Contamination.
• What a buyer or a regulator would find. Also see Risk.
• What a wet year moves that a dry one doesn't. Also see Climate.

• Ground you wish to stop losing to the creek. Also see Ground.
• Cover you wish to hold a bank in place. Also see Plant.
• A program you wish to run without drift or runoff liability. Also see Product.
• An invasive you wish to stop at your fence line. Also see Pest.
• A herd you wish to keep clear of what's around them. Also see Animal.
• Acres you wish to get out of the water's reach. Also see Water.
• Buildings you wish to site out of harm's way. Also see Utilities.
• Ground you wish to clear before you buy it. Also see Contamination.
• Exposure you wish to know about before somebody else finds it. Also see Risk.
• An operation you wish to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Climate.

• Ground that slumps, slides, or won't hold. Also see Ground.
• A bank with nothing left growing on it. Also see Plant.
• Spray that drifted where it shouldn't have. Also see Product.
• An invasive taking ground faster than you can fight it. Also see Pest.
• A protected species that showed up on your place. Also see Animal.
• Ground that floods out the same acres every few years. Also see Water.
• A building or a well in the wrong spot. Also see Utilities.
• A facility upstream you've wondered about. Also see Contamination.
• A regulation you found out about the hard way. Also see Risk.
• A wet area you can't touch because of what it's called. Also see Climate.

You want to know:

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

• Ground you wish to hold water through a dry August. Also see Ground.
• Crops you wish to match to the season you actually have. Also see Plant.
• A program you wish to work in a dry year as well as a wet one. Also see Product.
• Pressure you wish to stay ahead of as the seasons shift. Also see Pest.
• A herd you wish to hold condition through the heat. Also see Animal.
• Water you wish to have enough of when it stops raining. Also see Water.
• Buildings you wish to be workable in July and January both. Also see Utilities.
• Ground you wish to recover as the weather works on it. Also see Contamination.
• An operation you wish to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Risk.
• A place you wish to stop hinging on the rain coming right. Also see Climate.

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

You want to know:

• Why your ground dries out faster than your neighbor's. Also see Ground.
• How to plant for the season you actually have. Also see Plant.
• How your program should change with the weather you're getting. Also see Product.
• How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Pest.
• How many grazing days a changing season costs you. Also see Animal.
• Whether your soil could hold you through a drought. Also see Water.
• What it'd cost to make a building comfortable year round. Also see Utilities.
• What a wet year moves 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.