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Voluntary Fertilizer Cuts Won’t Shrink Gulf Dead Zone; MN Farmers Send Trouble Downstream
Friday, February 6, 2015 11:49
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Voluntary plan to reduce fertilizers not enough to shrink Gulf’s ‘Dead Zone’. Major voluntary strategies used on Midwest farmland to curb fertilizers that feed the annual low oxygen “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico don’t remove enough nutrients to succeed, according to a new, peer reviewed scientific study.
Farmers adapt to big rains but send trouble downstream. As rains have gotten heavier, Minnesota farmers in recent years have been expanding a 150-year-old drainage system, pulling billions of gallons more water off soggy land and letting the state’s corn and soybean fields thrive.
