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Researchers at the University of South Dakota report a multi-year project north of Sioux Falls, SD, appears to show a reduction in plant and animal diversity in wetlands that collect water runoff from agricultural land.
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After two years of political debate, legislation and then legislative amendments, Minnesota’s new buffer law is at the point of working out the devil in the details.
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A tile system will drain water from 10 acres of agricultural land in Ohio, built up with dredged sediment from the Great Lakes region. The drainage system will also be used in future nutrient runoff reduction research.
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What do you get when you put a Michigan dairy farmer and a conservationist in a car for several hours? If the dairy farmer is Blaine Baker, co-owner of Bakerlads Farm in Clayton, and the conservationist is Thomas Van Wagner, technical co-ordinator for the Lenawee Conservation District Center for Excellence Program, you get the initial designs of a livestock reservoir wetland sub-irrigation system.
“Tom got the idea from systems in Ohio they are using for irrigation of crops and thought maybe we could put it together for irrigation of wastewater for dairy,” Baker says. “We designed it on the trip out and back to the conference.”
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