AMES, IOWA-The Iowa Learning Farms’ monthly webinar, will be at 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday and features Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship staff members Jim Gillespie and Shawn Richmond. They will be presenting more information about the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy.

The webinar is part of a free series, hosted by ILF, through Adobe Connect. The series is on the third Wednesday of each month. A computer with Internet access is all that is needed to participate.

Jim Gillespie, IDALS Division of Soil Conservation director, and Shawn Richmond, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) coordinator, will provide an overview of what the Nutrient Reduction Strategy (NRS) is, what the goals are and how it will be put in place.

The Iowa NRS is an outcome of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force. This group called upon each of the 12 states along the Mississippi River to develop its own strategy to reduce nutrients entering the river and in turn reduce the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia zone, or dead zone. The NRS was developed jointly by IDALS, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Iowa State University.

To connect to the webinar, go to: connect.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/ at 11:30 a.m. on the morning of the webinar and log using the guest option. Gillespie and Richmond will be able to answer questions from webinar “attendees” via the Adobe Connect chat box.

The ILF website contains links for archived webinars from all previous sessions: www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/Webinars/. The webinar archive is also available in a podcast through iTunes.