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ble. This is where nutrient management planning can be of great benefit to the individual farmer.
Advance planning can help land-users purchase and apply the exact amount of fertilizer that their crops can uptake. Any additional fertilizer applied beyond that point would result in a monetary loss to the land-user, a potential nutrient loss to the environment (having negative effects on water quality), and would most likely generate no change in improved crop yield.
Excess nutrients carried by stormwater runoff into local tributaries are a major source of nonpoint source pollution in the Rappahannock River. One impact of excess nutrients in the Rappahannock River has been the outbreak of algae blooms in the Chesapeake Bay. Algae blooms block sunlight needed by submerged aquatic plant communities.
As a result, the fish and shellfish communities in the Bay that depend on these
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