Impact of high fertilizer costs could have positive effect on water quality

A water quality researcher says farmers reducing fertilizer applications this year could create positive outcomes for the Western Lake Erie Basin for several years.

Laura Johnson is the director of the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg University in northeast Ohio.

“If these fertilizer prices stay high and we see rates start to go down maybe even lower than what is recommended because you’re doing what you can to get by—that probably will have a long-term effect,” she says.

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