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Ag & Water Desk

Sustainability

Trash to Treasure: Blue River Facility Will Turn Solid Waste into Natural Gas and Fertilizer

New $140 Million Facility Slated for Commissioning Next Year

by Julie Freijat

Sustainability

Farm to Trouble: Drainage Tile Drives Nutrient Pollution

'We Should Have a Sense of Urgency'

by Joy Mazur, Columbia Missourian

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.

by Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens

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.

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William T. Kemper, Commerce Bank, Trustee

Jo Anna Dale

Herbert & Bonnie Buchbinder

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