Listen "A "blitz" of new water quality protection practices is coming to Iowa"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome to Episode 75 of The Spokesman Speaks podcast. This episode features two key players in a new, collaborative water quality "blitz" project that's adding 51 saturated buffers and bioreactors to the central Iowa landscape over the next year: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Hardin County farmer (and Farm Bureau leader) Jacob Handsaker, who also runs the excavating company that's constructing these conservation practices. Resources mentioned in this episode: about central Iowa's water quality "blitz" project Learn more about Iowa's various water quality protection initiatives at ConservationCountsIowa.com. Stay tuned for Iowa Farm Bureau's upcoming "Carbon Credit Markets: What Farmers Need to Know" virtual roundtable. The roundtable will take place on July 14, and more details will be released here soon. Register for the Innovative Livestock Price Risk Management Webinar Series.
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