Episode Details

The MPCA’s Justin Watkins sees nitrates leaking out of farm fields as an “invisible” problem that’s all too easily ignored. The solution is to shine a spotlight on widespread systems changes in agriculture. (1st in a series on farming, nitrates, and water)

More Information:

• LSP’s Rethinking Nitrogen Campaign

• Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy

• Southeast Minnesota Nitrate Strategies Collaborative Work Group

• Minnesota Nitrate Concentration Trends Study in Hydrology Journal

• LSP Myth Buster #68: When Nitrogen is Gone, it Can be Forgotten

• Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers

• Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag