WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- For years, conservationists in Minnesota have been concerned about agricultural drainage of Minnesota's farmlands. Miles upon miles of underground tile have been installed ...

The sight of the first snow on the horizon of Bill Wiley’s 500-acre farm in Shelby County, Ohio, is a welcome relief. The 2024 growing season has been incredibly dry. “We are about eight inches behind ...

The massive underground infrastructure that allows farmers to cultivate crops on much of the world's most productive land has outlived its design life and should be updated, according to a new study.

In a new study, scientists have estimated that a new conservation practice known as saturated buffers could reduce nitrogen from agricultural drainage by 5 to 10 percent. Every summer, a "dead zone" ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded nearly $5 million in grant funding for a program that helps create, enhance or restore wetlands. Iowa has received a part of that grant funding for a ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced the last seven agricultural drainage wells in the state have been closed, which represents the end of about 30 years of research and ...

North Dakota State Rep. Cynthia Schreiber-Beck, R-Wahpeton, N.D., talks about her potential farmland drainage regulation bill to to make it cheaper and less complicated for county officials to deal ...

When my team began researching the Minnesota River in 2007, I expected to confirm the familiar story told in many agricultural regions: that sediment pollution was coming mainly from eroding farm ...

Every summer, a "dead zone" forms in the Gulf of Mexico. Plumes of oxygen-robbing algae, fed by excess nitrogen coming in from the Mississippi River, kill off marine life and threaten the livelihoods ...