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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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Grazing to Protect Surface Water: Considering critical and sensitive areas

Grazing to Protect Surface Water: Considering critical and sensitive areas

Identifying critical and sensitive areas of your farm and managing them accordingly, especially at sensitive times of year, protects surface water quality while maintaining a productive grazing system.

▶ The Zone of Interaction: Exploring phosphorus stratification

▶ The Zone of Interaction: Exploring phosphorus stratification

In this video, Kelsey Hyland and Laura Paletta from UW–Madison Extension’s Ag Water Program explore phosphorus stratification in Wisconsin agricultural soils and its implications for water quality.

Wanted: Fields under cover

Wanted: Fields under cover

This article was originally published in the Journal of Nutrient Management. Overwintering cover crops is a proven way to further reduce phosphorus losses from cropland. In a cropping system, soil and nutrients work together to deliver healthy plants and productive crops. Fine-tuning soil and nutrient management to achieve profitable harvests and water quality protection can seem […]

▶ Watch: 4th Annual Discovery Farms Multi-State Webinar

▶ Watch: 4th Annual Discovery Farms Multi-State Webinar

This Discovery Farms Multi-State Webinar includes presentations from Wisconsin, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Vermont on farmer-led water quality research in these four states.

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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

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