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D.J. Gongol and Associates, Inc.
PO Box 180
4328 North Dawson
Cumming, IA 50061
515-223-4144
402-965-1306 text
515-981-0581 fax
www.gongol.net
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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.
Related products: municipal water treatment, geomembranes, farm products
Past water and wastewater news updates
last revised September 2006
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.
Related products: municipal water treatment, geomembranes, farm products
Past water and wastewater news updates
last revised September 2006
DJ Gongol & Associates, Inc.
4328 North Dawson Avenue | PO Box 180 | Cumming, IA 50061
515-223-4144 | 402-965-1306 text | 515-981-0581 fax
info@gongol.net