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Water quality database launched

The National Corn Growers Association, the United Soybean Board and other ag groups have partnered with the Water Environment Research Foundation to create a database to help improve water quality in agricultural areas.

The Agricultural Best Management Practices Database will be a central location of agricultural best management practice performance studies.

Fourth-generation Ohio farmer Brent Hostetler, who chairs NCGA’s Production and Stewardship Action Team, says the database will help farmers select best management practices that are right for their farm.  “What best management practice will work on my farm, because my farm in Plain City is not the same as a farm out in Missouri or Iowa.  So, what’s going to work in my area?  And the database will help with that.”

Hostetler tells Brownfield the database will not only include best management practices that improve water quality, but also ones that are cost effective for farmers.

AUDIO: Interview with Brent Hostetler