Clear water habits in Idaho. G rowers from Grangeville up to the Canadian border rely on rain to irrigate their crops, not giving much control to how much water they get. But they can control the quality of the water that runs off their crops and how it affects the river system. Here's grower Devon Zenner. Speaker2: Today we're standing at my field of black peas behind us, where I've directly no tilled into. Right now. I'm enrolled in NRCS program and with soil water conservation. And then I also have a CSP contract that I'm doing. We do nutrient management, reduced tillage. Then we also use a lot of biostimulants. We've been cutting our synthetic nitrogen quite a bit. We also do a lot of cover crops trying to not have any erosion in our fields. Got to keep these streams healthy. We graze cattle down in our pasture. We try to make sure that we don't have a bunch of nutrient runoff, because we don't want that water all dirty for our cattle, for drinking water. And not only that, the fish, because this goes clear down to the Lewiston area. By keeping this residue on, we prevent any erosion. What have you. That's kind of gist of it. I came back to the farm seven, eight years ago. We really got to doing reduced tillage. The NRCS program kind of made it to where it was a risk mitigation form. I was able to try new practices, and they were able to offset if I had any losses in what have you and we haven't. It's just nonstop. We keep increasing yields since we've done that. Hardly any erosion at all. Speaker1: No erosion, cleaner water.
