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Article: Nutrient management, an integrated component for water quality protection. (Nutrient Management)
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Is nutrient management ready to be integrated into water quality protection? The answer to that question is yes, but the real question is "are we as planners and users ready to integrate nutrient management into our management systems?" I think most of us here today [at the National Agricultural Nutrient Management Conference] would have a positive answer to that question. But if we were the average farmer, I do not think we would be very positive in our response to nutrient management and using it in our management system unless we had a good database on which to make the decision.
As water quality and nutrient management professionals, we can analyze different ...