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. (1st in a series on nitrates, farming, and water)
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• LSP’s Rethinking Nitrogen Campaign
• Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy
• Southeast Minnesota Nitrate Strategies Collaborative Work Group
• Minnesota Nitrate Concentration Trends Study in Hydrology Journal
• LSP Myth Buster #68: When Nitrogen is Gone, it Can be Forgotten
• Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers
• Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag
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