WILLMAR -- New methods of draining water from farm fields are being implemented in Kandiyohi County in an attempt to reduce sediment and pollutants from getting into lakes and streams. The ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River basin, which causes a ...

A proposed improvement to a large drainage ditch system near Mapleton has the Department of Natural Resources, conservation groups and downriver communities calling for changes in the project, ...

Subsurface drainage, commonly known as ag tile systems, is an important part of agricultural systems in north central Iowa. A drainage workshop planned for March 16 at the Hancock County Extension ...

DES MOINES | The Des Moines Water Works lawsuit against three counties over high nitrate levels in rivers is part of intensifying efforts by environmental groups around the country to treat ...

Who would have guessed there’s a bright side to climate change, at least for some farmers? A long-term Farm Journal study suggests Midwestern crop producers can turn today’s more extreme weather ...

For nearly 160 years, generations of the Isley family have cultivated the fertile soil of Lenawee County, about 25 miles from the shores of western Lake Erie in the River Raisin Watershed. And now ...

Longstanding flood control decisions continue to ripple through rural Manitoba, where farmers along Lake Manitoba say ...