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To combat hypoxia, it is essential to reduce the amount of land-derived nutrients reaching rivers in runoff. Farmers can help reduce runoff through a variety of different ways:


 * 1) Farmer's creation and adaptation of nutrient management plans. By figuring out when each of their crops need fertilizer, the right amount of that fertilizer, where it is needed, and with the correct methods farmers can drastically reduce their runoff.
 * 2) Fixing Drainage Methods. Water collected in drainage has the potential to carry excess nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen to watersheds, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. A subsurface tile drainage can help manage these water movements.
 * 3) Cover Crops. Farmers can keep their fields occupied by having year-round plant coverage to prevent erosion into waterways of the soil and the subsequent nutrients that it contains.
 * 4) Field Buffers. The planting of shrubs, bushes, trees, and tall grasses around crop fields can help prevent runoff through the absorption and filtering out of nutrients by said plants before they can get to bodies of water.
 * 5) Reducing Tillage. By implementing a conservative approach to the tillage of their fields, farmers can help increase the health of their soil while also reducing the chances of erosion and runoff of nutrients.

Alternately, this can be done by restoring natural environments along a river; marshes are particularly effective in reducing the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen (nutrients) in water ...