More Profits for Water Quality-Certified Farms

Farmers enrolled in the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program have higher profits than non-certified farms. The Minnesota State Agricultural Centers for Excellence evaluated five years of data for this study. It found that water quality-certified farms had an average net cash income of nearly $214,000. That compares to $163,000 for the non-certified farms. Certified farms also had better debt-to-asset ratios and operating expense ratios.