Mission


GOAL: To optimize and document the performance of agriculture in achieving local watershed, state and federal water quality objectives in Iowa sub-watersheds.

Watershed Program is designed to provide resources to develop local leadership and supply applied environmental evaluation. In order to realize gains in water quality within a watershed, it's necessary to work on an integrated set of solutions with at least the majority of production acres in that watershed.

Programming, to date, has been concentrated in four platform watersheds:

  • Boone River
  • Pike Run Creek (Cedar River)
  • South Fork (Iowa River)
  • West Buttrick Creek (Raccoon River)

   
 

Programming in these watersheds focuses on these activities:

  • helping farmers build effective partnerships in watersheds
  • giving farmers an informed voice and coordinated leadership role
  • recruiting a critical mass of farmer participants (over 50% of production acres)
     within targeted sub-watersheds
  • improving water quality through integrated solutions  
  • helping farmers improve management efficiency and profitability
  • leveraging resources for watersheds
  • introducing CEMSA and the On-Farm Network™ in organized watersheds
  • using applied evaluation and adaptive management on farms
  • focusing attention to watersheds' priority issues
  • conducting baseline and strategic water monitoring for better understanding
    of the land-water interface and performance of solutions

     
 

 
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