Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story

Bob Malos narrates this controversial, educational, eye-opening, discussion-raising, 1-hour documentary that consists of interviews with sea food company owner Dean Blanchard and employee Karen Hopkins, Minnesota corn farmers Jack and Dick Gerhardt and Arlene and Luverne Nelson, ecologists (such as Nancy Robalais, Dave Tilman, Dr. Gene Turner, and Mike Davis), soil consultant Mike Lovelein, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, Land and Natural Resources Director Stan Ellison, geologist Dan Engstrom, plant geneticist Wes Jackson, environmental engineer Shawn Shottler, cattle company owner Todd Churchill, chef Scott Pampugh, organic vegetable and fruit farmer Jack Hedin, corn and soybean farmer Tony Thompson, social drainage scientist Jeff Strock, glacial geologist Carrie Jennings, and former Rural Advantage President Linda Meschke to address the effects of agricultural practices, food choices, environmentally negative changes to the Farm Bill, and the impact on urban overfertilization has had on increased phosphorous levels in local waters such as Lake Pepin and dangerous and historic rise in nitrate levels that ultimately has led to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Massachusetts.
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