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Minnesota Ag Water Quality certification milestone
Jan 25, 2017, 12:31 PM
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More than 300 Minnesota farms are now certified under the Ag Water Quality Certification program.
Department of Ag Commissioner Dave Frederickson says 175,000 acres have been enrolled.
“We’re plodding away, but we’re doing it the right way. We’re establishing Best Management Practices on working lands in Minnesota. And these are practices that our own University has said (work) for water quality.”
Best Management Practices (BMP’s) include split applications of nitrogen, reduced tillage and buffer strips.
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