Demonstrating and enhancing risk assessment tools to determine efficiency and cost-effectiveness of innovative nutrient reduction strategies in the Mississippi Delta

This project is intended to test and validate existing risk assessment tools and new developed components on risk assessment tools, to demonstrate their accuracy in assessing the magnitude, extent and risk of soil and nutrient losses, and their utility to facilitate decision support for water quality and quantity improvement and cost-effectiveness of conservation practices at field and watershed scale in the Mississippi Delta. It considers results from demonstrations conducted in different active agricultural production fields in the Big Sunflower River Basin and the Upper Yazoo River Basin (MRBI priority watersheds) within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, commonly referred to as the Mississippi Delta.

The project is part of the USDA-NRCS Conservation Innovation Grants- CIG initiative. It involves the participation of a multidisciplinary group of researchers and extensionists with appointments in institutes and departments at Mississippi State University collaborating with researchers from the USDA ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory.