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This policy brief advocates for the development and deployment of technologies to track agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, identifying current barriers such as a lack of cost-effective sensors and coordination. It highlights the 'Ag N2O MMRV Roadmap' as a guide to bridging research gaps and suggests a coordinated strategy involving federal agencies (for research strategy) and state governments (for incubation and incentives) to support a new industry of N2O monitoring services.

This working paper examines the environmental and health impacts of nitrogen losses in United States row-crop agriculture and proposes a technical toolkit and policy framework to reduce these losses while maintaining crop yields.