The leader of the Iowa Farm Bureau says a re­­cord number of conservation practices have been put into place in the last two years and they will continue to push for more. Craig Hill says that’s something that should be looked at when gauging the efforts of farmers to improve the water quality in the state.

"The progress that we want to measure is how many structures are built every year, how much water is retained in building new ponds and terraces, how much erosion can be controlled. We can measure with ...