Seeds of Gulf Dead Zones Are Draining from U.S. Farms

A study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Quality by a team from Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana found that tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands - from southwest Minnesota to Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio - are the biggest contributors of "dead zone" fueling nitrogen runoff into the Gulf of Mexico.

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