Nitrate and Water Quality

How does nitrate get into our water? How can we keep it in our farm fields where it can do the most good? Learn more in this animated video explaining how nitrate affects water quality and how farming practices can help.

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At PFI, our members believe that truly resilient farms and communities need clean water. While we have to safeguard our water supply against many contaminants, one of our biggest problems is nitrate. In much of the Midwest, that water starts its journey by falling on farmland, meaning that the solutions to solving the nitrate problem start in agriculture.

However, the problem is complex - most of the processes are not visible to the naked eye. Water that's high in nitrate looks pretty much the same as any other water.

Regardless, how the process works is important, because that understanding is the key to coming up with a fix that makes sense.

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