A “blitz” of new water quality protection practices is coming to Iowa

<p>Welcome to Episode 75 of The Spokesman Speaks podcast. This episode features two key players in a new, collaborative water quality "blitz" project that's adding 51 saturated buffers and bioreactors to the central Iowa landscape over the next year: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Hardin County farmer (and Farm Bureau leader) Jacob Handsaker, who also runs the excavating company that's constructing these conservation practices.</p> <p>Resources mentioned in this episode:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://iowaagriculture.gov/news/central-iowa-adds-51-water-quality-practices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a> about central Iowa's water quality "blitz" project</li> <li>Learn more about Iowa's various water quality protection initiatives at <a href= "https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/conservation-counts" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">ConservationCountsIowa.com</a>.</li> <li>Stay tuned for Iowa Farm Bureau's upcoming "Carbon Credit Markets: What Farmers Need to Know" virtual roundtable. The roundtable will take place on July 14, and <a href= "https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Events" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">more details will be released here soon</a>.</li> <li><a href= "https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Innovative-Livestock-Price-Risk-Management-webinar-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register for the Innovative Livestock Price Risk Management Webinar Series.</a></li> </ul>