GLPF Blog
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Agricultural Retailers Implement Great Lakes-Friendly Business Model
Keeping Millions of Pounds of Phosphorus from Entering the Lakes A Note from Fund StaffThe Partnership for Ag Resource Management (PARM) started as an ambitious idea to prove that agricultural (ag) retailers could make…
October 8, 2019 -
The Power of Perception: Helping Farmers Leave a Legacy of Healthy Land
Promoting Agricultural Innovation to Improve Water Quality Lake Erie has made an impressive comeback since the 1960s when some parts were declared dead from industrial pollutants. Eleven million people, from Toledo to Cleveland…
October 8, 2019 -
BMP Challenge – A Financial Safety Net for Farmers to Adopt Great Lakes-friendly Practices
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…
October 2, 2019 -
Developing a Toolbox to Reduce Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus from Farms
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…
October 16, 2016