Agro-ecosystem resilience
Successful solutions
- Developing new crop rotations and utilizing cover crops to build soil organic matter, reduce erosion, retain nutrients, and decrease insect and disease pressures.
- Utilizing willow trees at the field/buffer zone interface to trap sediment and nutrients.
- Reducing nutrient loading to surface water with wood chip bio-filters.
- Developing new soil test indices to reduce phosphorus applications.
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