Managing Manure Transport with Prairie Strips

Managing Manure Transport with Prairie Strips

Recent science suggests yet another benefit of prairie strips: manure management to prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

July 2, 2025: Adoption and Disadoption of Soil and Water Management Practices in the U.S.

With Alejandro Plastina

May 21, 2025: Utilizing Stream Restorations to Improve the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Integrity of Minnesota's Watersheds

With Jon Lore

April 2, 2025: Network Meta-Analysis Quantifies Benefits of 4R N Management

With Sylvie Brouder

Conservation, Webinars, Water ConservationLiz RipleyApril 2, 2025nitrogen rate, nitrogen, 4R, water quality

Field Day Archive: Evaluating Rotations of Cover Crops and Summer Annual Forages

Field Day Archive, Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyMarch 13, 2025water quality, cover crops, cereal rye, grazing, forage, cattle

February 26, 2025: From the Top of the Watershed to the Bottom of the Lake: Lake Restoration in Iowa

With Michelle Balmer

Conservation, Webinars, Water ConservationAlena WhitakerFebruary 26, 2025water quality, lakes, lake restoration, watershed

Field Day Archive: Can Precision Planting of Cereal Rye Mitigate Corn Seedling Disease and Yield Drag?

Field Day Archive, Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyFebruary 13, 2025water quality, cover crops, cereal rye, corn

Field Day Archive: Unlocking the Potential of Saturated Grassed Waterways for Nutrient Reduction

Field Day Archive, Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyJanuary 23, 2025water quality, tile drainage, waterway, saturated waterway

Iowa Wetlands

Iowa is home to a diverse array of wetland ecosystems that provide multiple benefits to humans and the natural world. These wetlands are essential for the survival of plants and animals adapted to life in a wet environment, including many rare and endangered species.

Conservation, Water Conservation, Edge of FieldLiz RipleyNovember 14, 2024water quality, wetlands

A Closer Look: Beavers as Superheroes of Water Quality

Learn about how humans and beavers can work together to coexist on our landscapes in both rural and urban settings.

Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyMay 3, 2024beavers, beaver dams, water quality

Anaerobic Digesters for Renewable Natural Gas

Anaerobic Digesters for Renewable Natural Gas

One way farmers can participate in the shift towards more renewable energy is by building an anaerobic digester on their farm or supplying feedstock for a nearby digester.

Redefining the Field Edge: Improving Farm Profitability with Strategically Placed Prairie

What is redefining the field edge?
A land-use-change concept that alters a field’s cropping boundaries, converting some parts of the field to perennial prairie vegetation.

Whole Farm Conservation Best Practices Manual

This publication provides best management recommendations for farmers and landowners getting started with conservation and water quality practices by helping select and incorporate in-field and edge-of-field conservation practices most appropriate to the decision maker's land and preferences.

Conservation, Edge of Field, Water Conservation, Soil ConservationLiz RipleyJuly 6, 2022

Water Quality Matters to Us All

Water Quality Matters To Us All provides insight into the attitudes and practices of agencies and stakeholders involved in protecting Iowa's water quality. Based on listening sessions between 2008-2011 with farmers, urban residents, Soil and Water Conservation District commissioners, and field staff from Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the book details the institutional, community, and individual impediments towards water conservation and curtailing nonpoint source pollution.

Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyJuly 6, 2022

Where Does Your Drinking Water Come From?

Where does your drinking water come from? Two new infographics from the Conservation Learning Group take a closer look at that question and how nitrogen and phosphorus move on our landscape.

Conservation, Water ConservationLiz RipleyJuly 6, 2022drinking-water