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Iowa's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Makes Slow Progress, 4:32


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071619 432 The Iowa Environmental Council says the state’s approach to reducing nutrient runoff into waterways has been slow to meet its goals, six years into having a strategy in place. In an analysis it released this morning (Tuesday), the council says at the current pace of adoption, it would take 90 years to meet the goal of 60 percent of corn and soybean acres having a cover crop. Ingrid Gronstal (GRON-stoll) Anderson is the council’s Water Program Director. I like to think of this as what
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SPM NewsBy Bret Hayworth, Alejandra Perez