...featuring our friends Dick Sloan and Chad Ingels from the Lime Creek watershed. You can watch at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/using-sensors-spoon-feed-crops-extreme-precision/. The story features ways that farmers can reduce the amount of nutrients leaving their land - including precision nutrient application, bioreactors, and, in Dick's case, a combination of cover crops, no-till, and prairie strips. (You can even see one of the tile boxes we monitor!)
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AuthorMarty St. Clair is a chemistry and environmental studies professor at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Archives
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