The goal of this project is to positively change the skill sets and attitudes of professional agronomists, farmers and agricultural students to accelerate the adoption of agricultural systems that build soil health and reduce nutrient losses.
This project seeks to reevaluate the traditional “field edge,” investigating the long-term productivity and profitability of in-field low lying depressional areas. While traditionally planted to agricultural row crops, in the majority of years these marginal areas require significant inputs resulting in only modest crop yields and returns on investment. Can these marginal land areas be taken out of row crop production and transitioned to perennial vegetation to increase the return on investment with fewer acres and less risk?
Iowa Learning Farms is leading the Conservation Learning Labs project that will study how implementation of conservation practices can reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loss at the watershed scale in Iowa.
Taking a closer look at drinking water in Iowa and how nitrogen and phosphorus move.
