Farm Bureau calls for end to buffer-strip program
September 21, 2006
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has voted in favor of
ending the Conservation Reserve Program, the government's biggest program for taking farmland out of active agricultural service. It's intended to help provide buffers between cropland and waterways, in order to reduce the impact of nitrogen fertilizers on the water and cut down on
soil erosion. But with rising demand for corn (thanks to
ethanol),
there's rising pressure to put that land to active use. Nitrogen fertilizers are one of the main pollutants in Iowa's water for municipal service.
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