Nitrate’s Season of Reckoning
Ag Pollution in Karst Country Offers a Critical Opportunity for Soil-Friendly Farming
For residents of southeastern Minnesota, the past few months must seem like “The Season of the Nitrate.” It turns out nitrogen, that critical source of crop fertility, is quite adept at escaping our farm fields, and, in the form of nitrate, polluting groundwater. So much so that scientists, government officials, and physicians now recognize it… Read More →