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 ...
Improving farm drainage tiles in Illinois can be very challenging because most farmland is owned by absentee landowners ...
In many areas, the words “drainage” and “tile” are synonymous. But for farmers such as Leon Wendte—a retired soil conservationist who farms with his brother Roy in south-central Illinois near Altamont ...
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, ...
Corn sits in standing water after a field was flooded off Aqua Vitae Road in Hadley in July. Credit: GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS HADLEY — During a summer in which area farms dealt with significant ...
Ted Cruz says the Environmental Protection Agency has gone overboard in regulating farms by regulating even puddles and ditches. "They're hurting from a federal government whose policies have been ...
The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land, with Wood, Stones, Ploughs, and Open Ditches, and especially with Tiles; including Tables of Raintall ...