The Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement Program, or SWEEP, was a Canadian

Canada

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 agricultural program administered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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, and carried out by the province of Ontario

Ontario

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. Designed to examine the effects of tillage on many types of soil, the program ran from 1986 through 1988.

URL: http://agrienvarchive.ca/sweep/sweephom.html

See related Ontario Agri-Environmental Archive: http://agrienvarchive.ca/

See Related Clean Up Rural Beaches (C.U.R.B.) Program (1991–1996): http://agrienvarchive.ca/curb/curb.html

See also: PLUARG (Pollution from Land Use Activities Reference Group, International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes Basin)(1972–1979):

http://agrienvarchive.ca/pluarg/pluarg.html

See related ManureNet Canada site at: http://manurenet.ca/