The Yahara WINS program focuses on the protection and preservation of soils and water quality in the Yahara River watershed. Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is leading community partners including Rock County in innovative strategies of watershed adaptive management, targeting phosphorus reduction. Rock County offers incentive payments to willing and eligible agricultural landowners for the purpose of soil and water quality conservation. Phosphorus reducing practices include but are not limited to vegetative buffers, row crop to perennial cover, wetland developments, and waterway installations. Most practices allow harvesting for hay crop.
Eligibility for the Yahara WINS program includes being located within the Yahara River watershed of Rock County, owning agricultural lands with a minimum of two years of farm history, providing updated soil tests, and meeting other site-specific phosphorus reduction criteria.
Please contact Paul King at (608) 289-0877 or for more information.
