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Scaling Up Conservation: A Model for Success Last year, American Farmland Trust worked with ten Pennsylvania farmers in a demonstration project to grow crops using less fertilizer than the recommended levels. The project resulted in successfully reducing the amount of nitrogen that could flow into waterways by almost 25,000 pounds. This is a big success, but it is also just the beginning! The Pennsylvania project is the first step in our work to "scale-up conservation." This is our model for success that shows how we are taking small projects that work, creating money-saving policies and programs, and expanding those programs to ensure a cleaner environment while keeping farms in business!
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Scaling Up Conservation: A Model for Success
Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
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Scaling-up Conservation: A Model for Success
In 2009, the Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen helped farmers remove over 25,000 lbs of nitrogen from the bay.
We are working to scale-up this conservation program to make it available to more farmers in more states in order to significantly improve water
quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Expand program to includeMaryland and Virginia
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Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
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Feasibility Study of Scaling-up
Targeting to Reduce Losses
Discovering The Equation: Nitrogen Lbs Removed & Cost
Barriers To Adoption
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Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
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Find sources of funding to make project economically
sustainable • Federal Funding (EQIP)
•State Funding
• Insurance Product
• Water Quality Trading
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Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
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Policy
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Design policy package to support agricultures role in improving water quality
Support policy for water quality trading
Rally advocates in support of a cleaner
bay.
Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
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Policy
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Ongoing conservation program available to all farmers in the region and at a scale that significantly improves water quality
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Pennsylvania BMP Challenge for Reduced Nitrogen
Learn More about our Initiative for
Agriculture & Environment:
www.farmland.org
