The Agriculture Water Quality Program delivers educational content for farmers, crop advisors and conservation professionals on the relationships between ag production practices and water quality outcomes.
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2025 Discovery Farms Year in Review
In 2025, Discovery Farms completed two projects, added one, and hosted many outreach events to share their data.
Diving Deep Into Plant Available Water
Filled to Capacity Crunch the Numbers What Determines Availability References How much can we influence the plant available water in soils? Let’s break down what plant available water is and how it can be improved. Plant available water is the maximum amount of water a plant can extract from the soil. It can also be […]
Research and Real-World Experience Drive Conservation Decisions at the WWASH Conference
Farmers played a key role in shaping the agenda at the 2025 Wisconsin Water and Soil Health Conference, which emphasized real-world experience, and highlighted farmer-led experimentation paired with measured on-farm research to advance soil health, water quality, and farm profitability across Wisconsin.
Quantifying Nitrate Leaching from Agricultural Soils
There are several common ways to quantify nitrate leaching. Each method has different benefits and tradeoffs in terms of data accuracy, equipment needed, and time and labor requirements.
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Who are we?
The Agriculture Water Quality Program helps to address the water quality challenges facing agricultural producers in Wisconsin. Our Program adds support and structure for collaborations and initiatives to conduct research and education to improve water quality related to agricultural production for farmers, crop advisors, and conservation professionals.
We build on the research, knowledge, and experience of faculty and staff in Extension that have been working on this issue, including Extension’s very successful Discovery Farms® Program.
Contact our Extension Agriculture Water Quality Program team at agwater@extension.wisc.edu
