County nitrogen reduction planning tool for groundwater

County nitrogen reduction planning tool spreadsheet for groundwater, last updated on 10/3/23. Note: This is a watershed-scale tool intended for an audience of local water resource managers, not a farm-level decision tool.  It will probably be necessary to save the spreadsheet to your own computer and then re-open it to allow the macros in it to work properly:

Tool for Southwestern Minnesota (xlsm)

Tool for Central Sands area of Minnesota (xlsm)

Tool for Southeastern Minnesota (xlsm)

Documentation (pdf)


The Nitrogen Alternative Management Planning Groundwater Tool spreadsheets were developed under a contract between the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the University of Minnesota, as part of a comprehensive study of groundwater nitrogen conditions, sources,  trends and solutions.