Starting in the soil
The Red River Valley is known globally as some of the best farmland in the world, but there are still significant variances as to the types of soil that are found here. This “valley” is really the bottom of Glacial Lake Agassiz, a massive, ice-dammed lake. The lake began to develop as ice from the last ice age melted northward about 12,000 years ago. As the huge ice sheet slowly melted, soils were shifted, piled, and re-arranged throughout the region. That’s what creates the