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Recent Stream Nitrate Data

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2019 Water Year (10/1/18 to 9/30/19) pounds per cropped acre

62.2 74.2
66.9
74.3 35.3
50.4
34.7
28.9
30.5

31.9

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Iowa is hemorrhaging
nitrogen!

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Flow Weighted Average Concentrations (mg/L)

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Missouri R. Areas:
7.2 mg/L
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Mississippi R. Areas: Water Yield: 478 mm
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4.8 mg/L Water
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Yield: 543 mm
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4
2
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Input amounts to corn calculated assuming

statewide average of 15.7 kg/ha to
soybeans applies. (USDA 2014).

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26 Surplus = Commercial N + Manure N + Fixation N – Grain N

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About 32% of
“surplus”
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streams

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About 22% of
“surplus”
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streams

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About 64% of
“surplus”
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streams

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Nitrogen Change (Metric Tons)

Since 1999 Nitrogen Change (%) Since 1999

N Category Difference (Mg) N Category % change

total inputs 661,370 River 83
Surplus 332,553 Chicken 76
Grain N 328,817 Turkey 59
Commercial 310,291 Hogs 59
Fixation 186,845 Surplus 51
River 154,254 Fixation 41
Hogs 122,916 total inputs 36
Beef 22,464 Commercial 34
Chicken 17,997 Grain N 27
Turkey 4,144 Beef 10
Dairy -3,287 Dairy -11

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Wetlands and other EOF Inhibitors

Low density livestock Land Retirement

Cover Crops Extended Rotations

Floodplains Revisit MMPs and MM

Manure on snow
and frozen ground N at Recommended Rates at Times
Fall Tillage

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Adapted from USACE NESP report, 2007

The Future?

from USACE NESP report, 2007

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Fecal Equivalent
Population

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