Our Photos of the Week come to us from no-tiller Monte Bottens in Cambridge, Ill. He asked ChatGPT to create a photo with 52 semi-trailers dumping anhydrous ammonia into the river.
Why you ask? Monte says 1,000 tons of nitrogen flowed under the Green River Bridge by Geneseo, Ill., between April 1-12, the equivalent of 52 semi-trailers’ or 278 trailers’ worth into the river.
Monte says… “If we saw tankers spilling into a river, we’d take action. Runoff is considered normal and that there’s nothing we can do about it. The reality is, we as farmers are overapplying nitrogen to crops, which results in loss and pollution to streams.”
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