The Nitrogen Fertilizer Education and Promotion Team (NFEPT) will help the MDA with the coordination of prevention programs and activities. The NFEPT members provide recommendations to the MDA.
The NFEPT includes the following organizations:
- Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Board of Water and Soil Resources
- Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- University of Minnesota Extension
- University of Minnesota
- Certified crop advisors
- Fertilizer dealers
Other organizations invited include:
- Minnesota Ag Water Resources Center
- Minnesota Corn Growers Association
- Minnesota Crop Production Retailers
- Minnesota Farm Bureau
- Minnesota Farmers Union
- Minnesota Irrigators Association
- Minnesota Soybean Growers Association
- BASF
- Bayer CropScience
- Dow Agrosciences
- DuPont Crop Protection
- Monsanto
- Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative
- Syngenta
- Minnesota Grain and Feed Association
- Cooperative Network
- University of Minnesota
- Minnesota Department of Health
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Freshwater Society
- Minnesota Rural Water Association
The Nitrogen Fertilizer Education and Promotion Team will:
- Create unified messages about using nitrogen fertilizer best management practices to reduce nitrate loss to groundwater
- Ensure that available resources are used wisely
- Support an adaptive management strategy for the best management practices
