The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy Annual Report is now available. It provides progress updates on all of the point and non-point source efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loads leaving the state. Iowa Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says the report documents $420 million in public and private funding support for water quality efforts in Iowa.

He says the report includes the data from extensive water monitoring. Plus, it identifies and quantifies the practices farmers have adopted towards the goal of achieving a 45-percent reduction in nitrogen and phosphorus loads leaving the state.

Naig says the “logic model” framework also recognizes that to affect change in water quality there is a need for increased inputs, measured as funding, staff and resources.

The report was compiled by the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University and is available on their website.