Map shows how fertilizer is choking the Great Lakes

Re:Map shows how fertilizer is choking the Great Lakes by whalesalad on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:04PM (#26563106)

Dude come on... we don’t do a lot of livestock up here. It’s all corn and beans. It’s definitely fertilizer and pesticides, no doubt about it.

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Re:Map shows how fertilizer is choking the Great Lakes by samatman on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:36AM (#26563632)

Michigan has ~300,000 dairy cows, ~100,000 beef cows, and around a million pigs: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-ogl-sbci-MI-Lives...

This document also discusses manure and runoff problems, although not in much detail, it looks to be a PDF of a slide show.

Lake Michigan borders Wisconsin, a state known for animal husbandry.

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Re:Map shows how fertilizer is choking the Great Lakes by sjg007 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:29AM (#26564164)

Those aren’t the issue

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