Conservation dairy farming impact on water quality in a karst watershed in northeastern US

Agriculture & Biology

• karsts 100%
• dairy farming 90%
• water quality 89%
• forage crops 85%
• pollution load 71%
• Soil and Water Assessment Tool model 65%
• crop production 50%
• nutrients 42%
• injection 37%
• total maximum daily load 36%
• no-tillage 36%
• sediments 33%
• agricultural management systems 29%
• nonpoint source pollution 27%
• nitrous oxide production 24%
• best management practices 24%
• environmental quality 22%
• forage production 21%
• denitrification 21%
• volatilization 20%
• runoff 20%
• leaching 17%
• cropping systems 17%
• soil quality 16%
• dairies 16%
• soil water 15%
• nitrates 14%
• farming systems 14%
• agriculture 13%