7.9.13 isa environmental programs presentation todd sutphin
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ISA Environmental Programs
English River Watershed Meeting
July 9, 2013. Wellman, Iowa
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• Advance agricultural leadership for environmental quality by developing, applying, and promoting programs that assist producers to perform agronomically and economically
• Develops policies and programs that help farmers expand profit opportunities while promoting environmentally sensitive production using the soybean checkoff and other resources.
• The Association is governed by an elected volunteer board of 21 farmers.
• Largest State-based row commodity association in U.S. serving 45,000 Iowa soybean farmers.
Iowa Soybean Association Environmental Programs and Services
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Iowa Soybean Association
Program Components
• Soy Transportation
• Soyfoods
• Soy Biodiesel
• Policy
• International
• Marketing
• Communications
• Administrative
• Producer Services
• Iowa Food and
Family Project
• On-Farm Network®
• Environmental
Programs & Services
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Provide leadership for agriculture; have impact
• Conservation and Environment
• Policy
• Profitability
Seeking and capturing performance
Apply science methods to gain understanding
Crosses multiple geographic scales
Valuing cooperative partnerships and
collaborations
Provide value to membership
Environmental Programs and Services
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• Technical assistance for farmers, watersheds and
organized stakeholder groups
• Leveraging farmer investment with public – private
partnerships
• Monitoring and assessment
• Data management and analysis
• Adaptive management framework – PLAN, DO,
CHECK, ACT
• Targeting for cost effectiveness and measuring
outcomes for performance
• Public education, communication and outreach
• Management evaluation and reporting
ISA
Environmental Programs and Services
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Do
Check Act
Plan
• Create a plan to help farmers address
natural resource concerns – Document: nutrient, soil and pest
management planning – Partner with TSPs, CCAs
and Agronomists • Incorporates business management principles
– Environmental policy, legal requirements and communication
– Continual improvement cycle • Implement evaluation and testing
– Provides feedback to the plan
Soil Water Air Plants Animals Wildlife Energy
Farm Scale Planning
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225 farms 65 defined watersheds -39 active and 26 supporting ~ 6 million acres - over 35 public and private partners.
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Crooked Creek Watershed Washington County
• Management Evaluation: Guide Stalk Sampling
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Watershed Planning
• A comprehensive plan for the watershed (follows
watershed planning protocol)
– Farmer involvement; locally-led
– Identify resource concerns
– Establish specific goals/objectives
– Inventory watershed
– Formulate alternatives/evaluate alternatives
– Make decisions/write plan; includes implementation
schedule and resource needs.
• Infield/Edge of Field
• Set of integrated solutions;
no silver bullet
• Implementation
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Watershed Management Plan
• Use a community based approach to build partnerships
• Watershed inventory – stream and land use assessments;
water quality data; computer mapping
• Develop Goals and Objectives – assess strategies to meet
identified goals
• Education and Outreach – create citizens guide to help
summarize watershed management plan; other outreach
• Design a sustainable implementation program – satisfy
multiple goals/objectives while remaining environmentally and
economically sustainable.
• Implement watershed plan – carry out plan over 5, 10, and 20
years. Continue working with stakeholders
• Measure program success; make adjustments – continually
measure progress and make appropriate adjustments to ensure
that long term goals and objectives are met.
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Badger Creek Lake Watershed
Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Reduce non-point source pollution to at or below TMDL levels in
the Badger Creek Lake watershed while maintaining agricultural
productivity.
Objective 1: Reduce sediment delivery to Badger Creek Lake by 7,078 tons
within 8 years, and an additional 3,805 tons by year 20 for a
10,883 ton per year or 74% load reduction.
Objective 2: Reduce phosphorus delivery
to Badger Creek Lake by
9,202 pounds within 8 years,
and an additional
4,945 pounds by year 20 for
a 14,147 pounds per year or
74% load reduction.
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Badger Creek Lake Watershed
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Badger Creek Lake Watershed - Implementation
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Badger Creek
Lake Watershed
Planning Maps
Implementation Funding:
• National Water Quality Initiative
~$250,000; 2012
~$328,000; 2013
• EPA Section 319
~$420,000
• Iowa DNR - TBD
• Local Match/Other - TBD
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Don Williams Lake Watershed Planning Maps
DW Lake is on Iowa’s Impaired Waters List • Sedimentation (since 1998) • Nutrient Enrichment (since 1998) • Bacteria (new in 2010)
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Don Williams Lake Watershed Implementation
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Water Monitoring Analytical Services
Water laboratory, auto samplers and paired micro watershed study analysis.
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Drainage Water Treatment Woodchip Bioreactor
Design by Richard Cooke, University of Illinois
Source: Christianson, Laura and Matthew Helmers. 2011. Woodchip bioreactors for nitrate in agricultural drainage. Iowa State University Extension Publication. PMR 1008. Available at: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/ItemDetail.aspx?ProductID=13691.
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Greene County Bioreactor
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Woodchip Bioreactors for N removal. An innovative practice being applied in watersheds with nitrogen resource concerns. Water monitoring data to validate performance.
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Re-saturated Riparian Buffers
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Cover Crops Numerous opportunities
– Wheat, rye, oats, radishes, etc – They are a tool, and like any good tool must be used and
managed properly – Challenges
• Lack of moisture after planting leading to poor germination • Flying into standing beans seem to work better than standing
corn • Herbicide (before corn planting) sprayed, weather turned cool
and wet, corn planted into cover crop that was still green, 40 bushel yield loss
– But great potential • Reduced erosion, increased nutrient retention, increased soil
organic matter, increased earthworm population, weed suppression, green fields in March!, grazing, adds option to treating HEL ground, carbon sequestration, moisture retention
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3/20/12 4/11/12
10/26/12
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Oxbow Restoration within Boone River Watershed supports biodiversity and water quality goals
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Oxbow Restoration
Before After
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Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy
• A science-based framework for assessing and reducing nutrient loss from both point and nonpoint sources.
• Nonpoint Source Goals
– Reduce Total N by 41%
– Reduce Total P 29%
• Dedicated funding soon
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Thank You Questions?