Improving farm drainage tiles in Illinois can be very challenging because most farmland is owned by absentee landowners ...

Minnesota farm groups are pushing back against calls for tighter oversight of underground drainage tile as environmental advocates warn of nitrate pollution and erosion risks.

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Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into ...

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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 ...

A high-caliber 602±-acre farmland offering with 595.57 FSA cropland acres and a strong Whole Farm Surety WAPI of 172.6 will be sold at public auction on March 31.

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, ...