# Iowa Learning Farms Webinar: Pay for Performance Accelerates Cleanup and Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction 

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Timothy Rosen, director of agriculture and restoration, ShoreRivers, will provide an overview of traditional cost share and common pay for performance approaches that have been employed to facilitate voluntary practice adoption aiming to reduce nonpoint source pollution. 

## Registration

**HOW TO PARTICIPATE:**

Shortly before noon CDT, click the link below or type this web address into your internet browser: https://iastate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xtAwWXycQZW8iwtNLz34GA#/registration

Or, go to https://iastate.zoom.us/join and enter webinar ID: 999 3709 5398

Webinar Access

The Iowa Learning Farms (ILF) conservation webinar taking place April 17 at noon CDT will feature Timothy Rosen, director of agriculture and restoration, ShoreRivers. Rosen manages ShoreRivers’ agricultural department, partnering with academic, state, and federal agencies to advance research and implementation of agricultural best management practices, managing restoration projects, completing watershed assessments, and working with farmers and landowners to reduce land-based pollution. ShoreRivers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring waterways across Maryland's Eastern Shore.

In the webinar, “Pay for Performance: Cost-share Alternative to Increase Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction,” Rosen will provide an overview of traditional cost share and common pay for performance approaches that have been employed to facilitate voluntary practice adoption aiming to reduce nonpoint source pollution. He will discuss the common perception of pay for performance being a simple 1 to 1 transaction where total payments only vary based on total pounds of nutrient or sediment reduced after verification. Rosen will also examine the limitations of these programs as well as highlighting other pay for performance models used in the Chesapeake Bay region that have successfully accelerated cleanup efforts.

“There is growing interest in pay for performance programs and expanding program offerings are becoming an increasingly important part of agriculture best management practice implementation,” said Rosen. “The key to success in pay for performance is in maintaining flexibility in models and programs to insure relevance to desired outcomes.”

Participants are encouraged to ask questions of the presenters. People from all backgrounds and areas of interest are encouraged to join.

**HOW TO PARTICIPATE:**

Shortly before noon CDT, click the link below or type this web address into your internet browser: https://iastate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xtAwWXycQZW8iwtNLz34GA#/registration

Or, go to https://iastate.zoom.us/join and enter webinar ID: 999 3709 5398

Or, join via phone:Dial:  646-876-9923 | Webinar ID: 999 3709 5398

**Upcoming Webinars in the Series:**

**Up Next:**Wednesday, April 24, “*Social-ecological Suitability of Agroforestry in**the**Midwest,*” with Sarah Castle, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign.

**May 1 :** John Swanson, Polk County Public Works

## Contact

                -    Alena Whitaker, Water and Natural Resources Specialist, Iowa Learning Farms 
                -    515.294.2473 
                -    alenaw@iastate.edu 

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