Stopped Thousands of Pounds of Nitrogen from Entering the Lakes In 2002, the Great Lakes Protection Fund organized a team of insurers, farm operators, farm advisors and federal and state farm agencies to develop warranty products to protect farmers against financial losses that might result from adopting new best management practices. From this effort, the…

Sounding the Alarm on Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus Nothing makes headlines like residents who are told not to drink the water from their taps. The Toledo water crisis in 2014 and the “Lake Erie is Dead” declaration in the 1960s are of the same problem—too many nutrients in the water.  Nutrients like phosphorous, commonly used to…