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<blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 250205" data-attributes="member: 3373">Fertilizer runoff is certainly one of the problems. It took years to get to this condition and it will take years to solve the problem. I do see some improvements from quite a few farmers. there was a time when farmers just spread the fertilizer with little testing, more of a, if some is good, more is better. Today more farmers are leaning towards only spreading what is needed. Makes sense to reduce input costs where possible as another way to increase profit. With today's technology it's relatively easy to keep track of every acre and determine if it's possible make a profit on every acre. It comes down to &quot;If it's not possible to make a profit on that acre, does it make sense to have an input cost only to lose money.&quot; Storage like in the Powers&nbsp; Lake area, along with only applying the needed fertilizer,&nbsp; will reduce the time needed to improve the water quality.The good news with the Powers Lake Project is that when it's successful the state will have the evidence needed to apply to other lakes in the state. Certainly worth the cost to do a test run.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired Educator, post: 250205, member: 3373"] Fertilizer runoff is certainly one of the problems. It took years to get to this condition and it will take years to solve the problem. I do see some improvements from quite a few farmers. there was a time when farmers just spread the fertilizer with little testing, more of a, if some is good, more is better. Today more farmers are leaning towards only spreading what is needed. Makes sense to reduce input costs where possible as another way to increase profit. With today's technology it's relatively easy to keep track of every acre and determine if it's possible make a profit on every acre. It comes down to "If it's not possible to make a profit on that acre, does it make sense to have an input cost only to lose money." Storage like in the Powers Lake area, along with only applying the needed fertilizer, will reduce the time needed to improve the water quality. The good news with the Powers Lake Project is that when it's successful the state will have the evidence needed to apply to other lakes in the state. Certainly worth the cost to do a test run. [/QUOTE]

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