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 ...

The role that farm drainage plays in area flooding has long been a hot-button issue. But debate became even more heated after record flooding this spring, at least judging by comments on online chat ...

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 ...

MANKATO, Minn.—Seth Greenwood has watched parts of Seven Mile Creek County Park between Mankato and St. Peter disappear. ” The Minnesota River is eating the bank away,” said the Nicollet County public ...

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.

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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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - The Town of Mount Pleasant has kicked off a multi-million dollar capital improvement project. The Snee Farm Drainage Improvement Project in the Snee Farm neighborhood has ...

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 ...

The role that farm drainage plays in area flooding has long been a hot-button issue. But debate became even more heated after record flooding this spring, at least judging by comments on online chat ...