Stoutsville, Mo.-Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has announced a $3.3 million grant to promote voluntary conservation practices by local farmers to control soil erosion, improve soil quality, and provide wildlife habitat in the North Fork Salt Watershed, which drains into Mark Twain Lake, the source of drinking water for 42,000 people in northeastern Missouri. The grant will provide financial and technical assistance to farmers in Adair, Knox, Macon, and Shelby Counties to adopt voluntary conservation practices that will avoid, control, and trap runoff on a total of almost 200,000 acres. It is part of the Mississippi River Basin Initiative, a 12-state effort funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to address nutrient loading in the Mississippi River Basin from its source in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next five years, Missouri will receive about $28.3 million dollars to fund 12 projects in 59 watersheds and 20 soil and water conservation districts. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has put $500,000 toward this statewide effort.
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