Healthy Soil, Clean Water

  • Take our nitrogen survey and be a part of creating farmer-led solutions that will shape the future of farming, water quality, and rural communities in Minnesota

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  • One of our legislative wins for 2026 was the expansion of the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program. Read more about our wins and misses in this legislative update.

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The future of farming rewards stewardship and farmer-led solutions to our most pressing environmental issues like soil health, water quality, and a changing climate.

Future Forward Farming

  • Builds farmer-led solutions that enrich soil, protect waterways and reduce dependance on chemical inputs.
  • Provides safe drinking water by supporting widely-adopted farming practices that reduce nitrate runoff and are incentivized for farmers.
  • Substantially reduces nitrogen application by increasing diversification of cropping rotations and promoting continuous living cover and pasture-based livestock systems.
  • Lowers the financial risk for farmers to adopt practices that result in healthy soil and clean water via innovative policies and public and private partnerships.
  • Transforms fertilizer focused policies to better align with agronomic science, protect our water and climate and hold agribusiness accountable for incentivizing years of over use of chemical fertilizers.

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