Good afternoon everyone! Here is the fourth and final installation about Minnesota's agricultural and physical environment. Today, the focus is on challenges and opportunities for Minnesotan agriculture going forward. As always, compare these maps with those in previous posts to see how land use and the environment combine and create new, unique properties.
This map focuses on nitrate pollution in ground water shallower than 10 m deep. Nitrate is an important plant nutrient that most farmers supply either directly as potassium nitrate, or indirectly through other synthetic and organic fertilizers that soil microbes turn into nitrate. Nitrate moves through the soil quickly, which means crops can use it really easily and grow well. It also means, though, that…Continue
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