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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




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Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021


Success StoryBlue Water Farms: Edge-of-field water quality monitoring in western Kentucky



Blue Water Farms: Edge-of-field water quality monitoring in western Kentucky

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.  As of December 2024, we had completed the baseline cropping system monitoring (corn and soybean rotation) and the first cropping cycle of treatments for 22 stations.   We summarized our progress in the program and described the newly published story map cooperative extension bulletin AGR-280: University of Kentucky Blue Water Farms: Status of the Edge of Field Nutrient and Sediment Monitoring Network in Western Kentucky (Project Years 2018-2023).  Field tours were provided to Kentucky Soybean Board members, research coordinator, and interns.






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