An Iowa Soybean Checkoff investment is used for development, implementation and promotion of action-oriented initiatives to advance agricultural leadership for environmental quality by developing, applying, and promoting programs that assist producers to perform agronomically and economically. This funding is leveraged with $750,616 in other public and private match funding. Staff and contract specialists provide technical assistance to individual farmers and to organizations and agencies at watershed, state, regional and national levels. These efforts foster innovation and leverage financial investments of both checkoff funding and other collaborators. The activities are grounded in rigorous...
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