Discovery Farms Minnesota (DFM) is a farmer led water quality research and educational program. The mission of the program is to collect water quality information under real-world conditions and provide practical, credible, and site-specific information to support better farm management … Read More
The Minnesota Agricultural Water Resources Center is currently seeking farmers willing to participate in the Discovery Farms Minnesota program. Discovery Farms Minnesota is a farmer led effort to gather field-scale information on water quality impacts from a variety of farm enterprises in … Read More
February and March are usually the times of year when Discovery Farms starts to distribute warnings about spreading manure during the transition from winter to spring. Although the risk is lower this year due to a limited snowpack and frost, conditions … Read More
Headlines ranging from Des Moines drinking water to Gulf of Mexico hypoxia are heightening interest in nitrate levels in tile drainage. It is more important than ever to know the nitrate levels in the tile draining your fields. To help … Read More
Discovery Farms Programs in Minnesota and Wisconsin have collected edge-of-field water quality information from 25+ farms and 50+ fields starting in 2002. More than 100 site years of surface runoff data and 30 site years of tile drainage have been collected. … Read More
Edge-of-field monitoring conducted by the Discovery Farms – Minnesota program can help identify connections between farming practices and economic and environmental concerns. Measurement of nitrate-nitrogen in surface runoff at the field edge in the spring of 2015 provides an … Read More