Success StoryBlue Water Farms - Field Days



Blue Water Farms - Field Days

Author: Brad Lee

Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences

Major Program: Water and Soil Quality and Conservation

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Twenty-nine edge-of-field water quality monitoring stations have been developed to measure continuous nutrient and sediment runoff within row-crop agricultural fields across western Kentucky through a partnership of nine landowners, the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board, the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board, the USDA NRCS, Kentucky Geological Survey and the College of Agriculture Food and Environment at the University of Kentucky.  Over the past year, we have held 4 field days for a total of 488 participants, highlighting agricultural runoff water quality for the public.  Audiences included the Junior Red Angus Round-up (07/14/21 - 66 young adults from around the nation), Trigg County farm Tour on (07/22/21 - 274 agricultural producers), University of Kentucky Corn/Soybean/Tobacco Field Day (07/27/21 - 136 agricultural producers) and the Agriculture Water Quality Authority (05/05/22 - 12 agricultural leaders).






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