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 ...

Farm drainage is a relatively straightforward process. Farmers bury a series of underground tile lines in their fields with the tile emptying into the open ditches that people are accustomed to seeing ...

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Corn grows during only five months of the year, and drainage is essential to its growth. The other seven months while cornfields are empty, water and nutrients continue to drain away from farms.

Gov. Mark Dayton's reluctant decision last week to exclude private ditches from buffer strip mapping was an obvious setback to his hard-fought 2015 water-quality law. But the head of Minnesota's Board ...

Vermont dairy farm fields. Photo by Terry J. Allen/VTDigger [A] legislative committee decided Thursday to postpone a vote on amending farm water quality rules following objections from environmental ...

A federal judge says the Iowa Supreme Court should settle legal questions about whether farmland drainage districts can be held liable for water pollution downstream before a lawsuit filed by a Des ...

About 150,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland would be taken out of irrigated crop production as part of a costly plan, initially funded by taxpayers, to deal with the problem of poorly drained ...

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