Chart courtesy of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig on Monday announced a new state-funded conservation cost-share pilot project supporting farmers and landowners in the watersheds upstream from the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids metropolitan areas. The Streamside Buffer Initiative encourages farmers and landowners living in these priority watersheds to add perennial buffers to fields along streams to prevent nutrients from entering these important source water areas. 

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