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An Introduction to Drainage Water Management
Posted onManaging Water, Boosting Farmland: An Introduction to Drainage Water Management By: Tom Collins In 1938, the invention of in-field tile drainage systems ushered in a new era of productivity for…
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Drainage water recycling improves crop yields and water quality
Posted onEmerging Farm Resiliency Practice Provides Significant Farm-Level and Public Benefits, New Report from EDF New economic analysis of drainage water recycling shows the practice can increase crop yields and improve…
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IAWA Launches New Water Quality Website
Posted onIAWA Launches New Water Quality Website Iowa Ag Water Alliance’s new website includes goals-based conservation resources ANKENY, IA (IAWA) – Farmers, agri-businesses, and water quality professionals can access powerful resources…
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Rooted in Stewardship: How Iowa Corn Growers Can Stay the Course on Conservation
Posted onBy Greg Wandrey, Ph.D., Director of Sustainability, Iowa Corn Growers Association As an Iowa row-crop farmer, you know that cover crop season doesn’t start after harvest—it starts during the growing…
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Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt Improvement
Posted onMaxwell, IA A new water control structure to help the wetlands clean an additional 10,000 acres of ag runoff. A new water control structure to help the wetlands clean an…
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USDA ramps up support for prairie strips
Posted onBy Dan Looker ANKENY, Iowa (IAWA) – The USDA offers a cornucopia of conservation programs through its Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) – but using them…
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The STRIPS Project – A brief history
Posted onBy Dan Looker ANKENY, Iowa (IAWA) – In 2007, a group of Iowa State University researchers started testing the concept of mixing the advantages of tallgrass prairie with row crops, an…
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Prairie fuel – A new market for prairie hay
Posted onBy Dan Looker ANKENY, Iowa (IAWA) – Iowa farmers who plant prairie strips may soon have a new source of revenue for harvesting them. This spring, St. Louis-based Roeslein Alternative Energy…
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Polk County Accelerates Water Quality Efforts on Central Iowa Farms
Posted onMore landowners sign up for nitrate filtration practices in farm fields thanks to a visionary new public-private partnership approach that is turnkey and systems-based By Kurt Lawton Creating a scalable…
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Multiple Stakeholders Share Approaches for Source Water Protection
Posted onThe Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance (IAWA) Advisory Council recently met and tackled the important topic of source water protection. Source water refers to sources of water (such as rivers, streams,…