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Iowa’s Water Quality Progress Shows Impressive Stats

A recent article on the Farm Fresh blog provides some impressive stats about the progress being made on water quality in Iowa. The article 5 Fresh Stats Prove Iowa's Water Quality Progress highlights the large and som ...

Public/Private Reporting System for Nonpoint Source Environmental Progress Measurement

Introduce Practices Track Progress Enhance Learning Environmental Product, Service and Practice Validation. Many environmental products, services and practices exis ...

Water Quality Demo Project Launched

On Monday, July 6, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced funding for the AAI environmental initiative “Optimized Water Quality Wetlands Integrated with In-Field Nutrient Management Practices”. The proposa ...

Measurement & Demostration
Collaborate with agronomy retailers, CCAs, and ISU scientists to develop and pioneer a first-of-its-kind progress measurement system using retailer and CCA farm records to track environmental progress being made by Iowa farmers, while maintaining confidentiality and security of individual farmers’ information.
Validation
Provide means for neutral science collection and evaluation of water quality data on environmental products and practices in an effort to expand science-based options for meeting water quality goals.
Enhance Knowledge
Tap into the huge role that retailers and CCAs play in advising Iowa farmers by providing increased outreach and training to help with advising farmer decisions regarding environmental technologies and practices.

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