# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ_A-poD_Xg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67149479-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-24T22:00:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

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Farmers upstream from the Des Moines metro can now get incentives to plant more than three times as many acres as they now can in cover crops, a conservation practice that helps cut the high nitrate levels straining central Iowa’s drinking water treatment capacity.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture said Monday, June 22, it will provide farmers with $25 an acre to plant cover crops on up to 500 acres, up from the current maximum of 160 acres.
 
The initiative will be available to farmers in 22 counties in the Des Moines and Raccoon river watersheds, the sources of drinking water for 600,000 central Iowa residents.

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