Extension Water Programs in North Central States

Rick Koelsch, UNL Extension, February 3, 2015

All things "Extension & Water" is the focus of a new North Central Regional Water Network newsletter designed to connect water faculty and share water resources.  The January 2015 Newsletter (released last Friday) highlighted regional SERA-46, a twelve state research and extension project team, that is working closely with the Hypoxia Task Force

The Hypoxia Task Force is an EPA led group of federal and state agricultural and environmental agencies in 12 states in the Mississippi and Ohio River Basin.  The group is working is guiding public policy to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus delivery to the Gulf of Mexico.  SERA-46 is a new land grant university team of researchers and extension faculty from the same 12 states to promote effective application of science-based approaches to nutrient management by the  Hypoxia Task Force.

The newsletter also introduces:

• Recently funded North Central Water initiatives (including the Irrigation Capacity Building Workshop and the Manure Nutrient Ag Professionals initiatives of which Nebraska Extension is a partner),
• Iowa State's Cover Crop working group,
• Upcoming Webinar presentation on Educating the Next Generation of Water Leaders, and
• Water funding opportunities.

Click here to sign up to receive the Regional Water Newsletter  and here to view the January 2015 Newsletter.