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Rural demonstration projects
Clean Water Iowa: Rural Demonstration Projects
Clean Water Iowa supports Iowans working together to improve and protect Iowa water quality. They do so, in part, by supporting over 20 rural demonstration watershed projects. The 14 current projects as well as the 7 practice projects set the stage for landowners to implement conservation practices.
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Iowa Conservation Stewardship Program
Conservation Stewardship Program
The Conservation Stewardship Program helps you build on your existing conservation efforts while strengthening your operation. 
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Conservation reserve enhancement program map
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
CREP empowers farmers and ranchers to re-establish valuable land cover to help improve water quality, prevent soil erosion, reduce loss of wildlife habitat and address other sustainability objectives.
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Clear30 water pilot program preview
Nationwide CLEAR30 Pilot
The Clean Lakes, Estuaries, And Rivers initiative offers 30-year contracts through its CLEAR30 pilot. FSA introduced this pilot in 2020, originally focused on 12 states in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay watershed. CLEAR30 is now available nationwide.
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National Water Quality Initiative - Iowa
National Water Quality Initiative – Iowa
As USDA’s premiere water quality initiative, National Water Quality Initiative provides a way to accelerate voluntary, on-farm conservation investments and focused water quality monitoring and assessment resources where they can deliver the greatest benefits for clean water.
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Map of soil and water conservation contacts
Soil & Water Conservation Contacts
Protecting soil and water resources or addressing issues such as soil erosion, fertilizer and manure management, or improving water quality can be a daunting task. State and federal agencies have many knowledgeable people and financial and technical assistance programs available to help private landowners address their concerns and meet soil and water goals.
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Webpage overview of bioreactors
Bioreactor Facts
A bioreactor is a buried trench on the edge of a farm field that is traditionally filled with woodchips. Agricultural drainage tiles outlet into the woodchips where bacteria convert tile water nitrate-nitrogen into nitrogen gas.
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Video about bioreactors for watersheds
The Boone River Watershed: How Bioreactors Make a Difference
Farmers are stewards of the land, and in Iowa's Boone River watershed, they're working with The Nature Conservancy to improve water quality and wildlife habitat, while maintaining productive yields.
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Watershed Basics webpage
Watershed Basics
Learn about what a watershed is and how it works, what the problems are and how we can work to fix them and what you and your neighbors can do to help our lakes and streams.
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Farmers in Action
Farmers in Action | Conservation Counts
Farmers are taking a collaborative, comprehensive approach to improving water quality by adopting research-based conservation practices that best fit their farms.
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