Nutrient Loss Reduction News Today

Daily in-person and virtual events packed the Illinois Soil Health Week docket, including two days at the state capitol.

Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association president talks herbicide regulations, tractor pulls and hard conversations.

The Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy’s biennial report featured what’s been done and what needs to be done in the non-point source sector.

CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a state-wide program to standardize soil health

IL Corn and ISA are issuing a water quality testing challenge to FFA chapters to teach about nutrient loss and water quality — with $12,000 in prizes.

Farmers want to be part of the solution, but need the tools and resources to take those critical steps forward.

Heres what you might have missed this week in Illinois news...

Capitol News Illinois recaps the week in state politics and government

Calls current language confusing and bureaucratic

Conservation groups say it was a close call last week when a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contractor began clearing a site near Moab which contained dinosaur tracks believed to be 112 million years old. A wooden boardwalk was removed from a portion of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite and some ground cover was cleared before work was stopped. The Center for Biological Diversity heard about the incident on social media and fired off a cease and desist letter to the BLM to halt work. ...