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Cover crop trials in Minnesota’s Faribault County spark permanent conversion

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In Faribault County, 13 farmers have incorporated 800 acres of cover crops into their corn-and-soy-bean operations for the first time with an incentive from a demonstration grant and technical support from soil and water conservation district staff.
A $55-an-acre payment – available through a cover crop demonstration grant the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources awarded to the Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District – offset the risk of trying something new.

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First 7 miles of Minnesota’s Whiskey Creek restoration show effectiveness

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Work is slated to begin this spring on the third phase of a $7 million Whiskey Creek restoration designed to improve water quality, water quantity and wildlife habitat in and along the 20-mile-long Red River tributary and two ditches that outlet into the creek and add 9 miles to the project.
Related upland practices bring the total cost to $9.9 million. The project fixes decades-old erosion and flooding problems stemming from sediment buildup.

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In Minnesota’s Big Stone County: Erosion fixes augment Marsh Lake water-quality efforts

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The Big Stone Soil and Water Conservation District’s Clean Water Fund-backed work with farmers to curb field erosion will save topsoil while it reduces sediment and phosphorus loading to Five Mile Creek, which feeds Marsh Lake and the Minnesota River in far-western Minnesota.

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In Minnesota’s Meeker County, outreach is boosting CREP signups

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Litchfield, Minn. — When Minnesota Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program outreach and implementation grants from the state Board of Water and Soil Resources were made available to the Meeker Soil and Water Conservation District’s, Josh Pommier saw an opportunity.

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