Rethink N Podcast Series

Interested in hearing directly from those in the trenches of tackling nitrates in our water?

Check out the Land Stewardship Project’s Ear to the Ground Rethink N podcast series. You can check out all episodes of our Ear to the Ground podcast here. Note: All Ear to the Ground podcasts are the product of work done by real humans. Generative artificial intelligence, known also as generative AI, plays no part in the recording or editing of these shows.

Ear to the Ground 414: Refish the Nish

What do you do when your county has the highest cancer rate in the state and the local river experiences a catastrophic fish kill? Denise O’Brien, Larry Harris, and their neighbors responded by asking an important question: “What’s in the water?”

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Ear to the Ground 413: The View from Downstream

Making sure 600,000 people are consistently consuming water that meets health standards for nitrates is Amy Kahler’s job. That’s a big challenge when the land upstream is some of the most productive crop ground in the country.

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Ear to the Ground 412: ABG

Nutrient management expert Matthew Helmers has researched how certain land use practices can have a “disproportionate impact” when it comes to nitrate pollution reduction. He says it all starts with focusing on a simple mantra: “always be growing.”

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Ear to the Ground 411: Run Silent, Run Deep

The MPCA’s Justin Watkins sees nitrates leaking out of farm fields as an “invisible” problem that’s all too easily ignored. The solution is to shine a spotlight on widespread systems changes in agriculture.

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Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag

These three crop producers see no reason why productive farming and clean water can’t co-exist. But first, we need to stop the greenwashing and get our hands dirty. (2 of 2 parts)

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Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers

In the Corn Belt, water quality is not improving at a rate that is leading to meaningful landscape level change, and these poster boys for conservation farming say it’s time for the ag industry, commodity groups, and government to step up and take responsibility. (1 of 2 parts)

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Ear to the Ground 414: Refish the Nish

Ear to the Ground 413: The View from Downstream

Ear to the Ground 412: ABG

Ear to the Ground 411: Run Silent, Run Deep

Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag

Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers