Water Quality

Water Quality

How Farmers & Ranchers Are Improving Water Quality

Farmers and ranchers need to keep improving how their inputs are released into the environment – but the trend seems to be improving water quality. Likewise, it’s important to continue improving other areas of indirect water pollution like oil, grease and toxic chemicals from urban runoff and energy production. Continually seeking methods to safeguard our…

Water Quality

Reducing Agriculture’s Impact On Water

Focus on Improvement USFRA farmer and rancher affiliates – and our industry partners – understand the importance of reducing agriculture’s impact on water. Over the past few decades, farmers and ranchers have continuously worked to find innovative solutions to improve their impact on water. An increasing number of farmers and ranchers are doing more to…

Water Quality

What Does it Mean for a Farm to Lose Its Water Rights?

Water rights are the legal entitlement for a farmer to divert water from a specific source for beneficial, non-wasteful use.…

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Water Quality

How Farmers & Ranchers Keep Animal Waste From Causing Runoff Into Streams, Lakes And Other Waterways

Raising farm animals indoors, like many of today’s poultry, dairy cows and pig farms, means farmers and ranchers can capture…

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Water Quality

Protecting Waterways On & Around Farms is Important to Farmers & Ranchers

Protecting waterways is essential—not just for human life, but plant and animal life as well—and improving water quality is a…

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GMOs

How Does Biotechnology in Food Production Address Water Issues?

The 2010 report of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "The Impact of Genetically Engineered…

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