Sustainability
Stories by Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
Sustainability
Farm to Trouble: Could the Mississippi River Benefit from This Strategy to Improve Water Quality?
Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Chesapeake Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds.
Sustainability
Farm to Trouble: Mississippi River Basin Farm Runoff Pollutes Upstream Waters
Worsening local effects on health and recreation in Midwest states are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.”
Sustainability
Farm to Trouble: At the Mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana Bears the Burden of Upstream Runoff
This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.
Sustainability
Farm to Trouble: As Conservation Lags, so Does Progress in Slashing Gulf’s ‘Dead Zone’
One year away from a federal deadline to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico by 20%, increases in tile drainage, livestock and fertilizer use have made success unlikely.
by Erin Jordan
Funding for Flatland
Provided By
William T. Kemper, Commerce Bank, Trustee
Jo Anna Dale
Herbert & Bonnie Buchbinder