Buffer strips would help Iowa curb nutrient runoff – EWG

If Iowa farmers plant buffer strips alongside waterways, they “could get two-thirds of the way to the state’s goal for reducing phosphorus pollution and one-fifth of the way to the nitrogen pollution target,” says a report by the Environmental Working Group. It says a small proportion of landowners and “a vanishingly small percentage of row-crop… » Read More

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