Right biomass choices critical to soil, water

Des Moines Register

RICHARD CRUSE is an agronomy professor at Iowa State University. Contact: rmc@iastate.edu HILLARY OLSON is program coordinator of the Iowa Water Cent • March 16, 2009

Business as usual on Midwest farms is not acceptable.

Reservoirs continue to accumulate sediment. Rivers and lakes experience increasing algal blooms. Expensive nitrogen-filtration processes are required to provide suitable drinking water for Des Moines residents. And the Northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxia conditions show no signs of improvement.

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