Home / News Ag fertilizer runoff likely will force more drinking water restrictions Nitrate levels are especially hard to control during times of severe weather By Kevin Hardy - Stateline.org ...

Fertilizers applied just before a downpour are highly susceptible to runoff, and the nutrients will likely be carried away before benefiting plants.

Farm fertilizer runoff is impacting drinking water in the Midwest, not just the Gulf's 'dead zone' By Madeline Heim - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk ...

The city of Sanibel reminded all residents, as well as landscape and fertilizer applicators, to give their fertilizer routine ...

There are fertilizer alternatives, without phosphorus and nitrogen. "Those other nutrients are allowed, so potassium, calcium, iron, those are all important for plant nutrition," McIntyre said.

That project will install landscape buffers and bioreactors to help reduce runoff of nitrate and other nutrients. The department is contributing $244,000 of that money.

Farm fertilizer runoff is impacting drinking water in the Midwest, not just the Gulf's 'dead zone' Iowa Public Radio | By Madeline Heim - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Mississippi River Basin Ag ...