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Water quality top-of-mind for Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill doesn’t avoid the elephant in the room. The first issue he talks about among those concerning Iowa farmers is their caring for the conservation of the state’s soil and water. The city of Des Moines is suing three Northwest Iowa counties alleging that they’re the source of pollutants that find their way into the Raccoon River. Craig Hill, attending the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Diego, says there’s data suggesting the level of the pollutant at the heart of the matter, nitrate, is going down. “But what influence we have on that as producers we need to control, we need to limit,” he tells Brownfield Ag News at the convention. “We’re making strong attempts to do that, but it’s not a perfect system.”
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