Source: MORNING AG CLIPS 2/7/19

The Farm Services Agency (FSA) and the Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC) collaborated to quantify the effectiveness of saturated buffers to reduce nutrient loading from tile drainage waters. This demonstration program builds upon this same group of collaborator’s findings from the 2012-2015 and 2016-2017 projects. FSA has made significant investments through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) at addressing nutrients, specifically nitrogen, reaching America’s surface waters through the riparian buffer programs (CP 21 and CP 22). 

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