With soil health in mind, Todd and Michelle Andresen tap Becker SWCD and NRCS technical expertise to fine-tune full-season cover crops and install fencing. BWSR Clean Water Funds and NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program assistance cut the financial risk.
The project that saved farmers $175,000 could become a statewide model. Landowners, along with local, state and federal partners, made it work.
Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed Management Commission taps $416,000 Clean Water Fund grant from BWSR, $59,500 grant from Hennepin County, to reduce phosphorus loading to nutrient-impaired lake
A Winona County landowner is working with Root River SWCD staff and assistance from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to remove invasive buckthorn from hunting property bordered by a trout stream. Water quality and wildlife benefit.
Clean water, wildlife habitat, drainage solutions are priorities of Wilkin SWCD, Buffalo-Red River Watershed District project that taps 7 funding sources including a $2.9M NRCS award, MPCA pilot
Wright SWCD's $490,000 project treats 10% of county ditch system affecting Ann Lake, taps multipurpose drainage management Clean Water Fund grant
Pennington SWCD is working with Thief River Falls to stabilize three prioritized sites where erosion is contributing to a downstream water quality impairment. One site is encroaching upon city wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Native grasses replacing row crops have shown the most dramatic results in efforts by Rock SWCD, Rock County, Rock County Rural Water, BWSR, state departments of health and agriculture working with landowners.
A first-generation farmer with a passion for cows gets a start, and a longtime producer finds a way to pass on his farm. Assistance from the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service and Clean Water funds from BWSR play a role in the gradual transition that will result in a more efficient and environmentally sound setup.