Zach Lahn

And I don't know what the density though is, but it's very sparsely populated.

Nitrogen fertilizer out.

That's how many fucking chemicals are getting dumped in.

We actually had this winter.

So what happens is... Now, look, again, when I look at this, I don't look at it from the standpoint of, like, farmers are purposefully doing these things.

A lot of times I look at the associations that know better, and they know what's going on, and they give cover.

But, like,

In Iowa, what's happened to cause this is that one of the technologies that farmers have used most recently to increase yield has been field tiling.

So three feet under the ground or so, there's a perforated pipe.

It takes, basically what happens when you have a really wet season, a lot of rain will come down, the water table will rise.

When the water table rises,

these, it moves into waterways, areas that water goes into, and these tiles, these pipes, bring the water out and daylight it, dump it directly into a stream.

And so over the past 20 years, we've started what's called pattern tiling, which is like, we are putting these,

corrugated tubes all over the fields, 10- and 20-foot separation, and it's to make sure that the land is farmable, so it's draining water.

What's happening there is that when you have a really wet season, the water table rises, and you have anhydrous ammonia, you have nitrogen that's been applied to the field, and it rains, well, it can't soak down into the soil to purify.

So it goes directly into these tiles, and the tiles drain directly into the streams, and the streams drain directly into what in Iowa is the Raccoon River, is one of them.

The Raccoon River is either the most or the second most polluted tributary in the United States.

And so when I look at this, I just say... People are probably swimming, tubing, all kinds of shit.

We have so many lakes that there's notices on signs that you can't swim in them.

Because there's so many products in there.