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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▶ Watch: Nitrate Leaching: Trends in the Midwest to Local Impacts in Wisconsin
Dr. Lindsey Hartfiel, Discovery Farms Research Program Manager, and Kelsey Hyland, Agriculture Water Quality Outreach Specialist, discuss nitrate leaching.
▶ Watch: Updates and Insights on Wisconsin’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy
Wisconsin’s extensive network of partners and stakeholders collaborates to prioritize water quality protection and remediation. This webinar will highlight updates to the Wisconsin Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy, incorporating a decade of research and experience.
▶ Watch: Tile Drainage Impacts on Water Quality
Agriculture Water Quality Specialist, Laura Paletta and Conservation Profession Training Program Director, Kevin Erb speak to the impacts of tile drainage on water quality and finding old tile lines when maps and records are lost.
Flood Mitigation and Water Quality in Southwest Wisconsin
Introduction Extreme weather is nothing new in Southwest Wisconsin. However, the frequency at which communities and farmers experience this extreme weather in the form of flooding has increased. According to the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), storms that drop 4 inches of rain in 24 hours or less will double by the year […]
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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
