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

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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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 ...

MANKATO — A dramatic increase in the flows of area rivers and the related damage they bring was a focus of the Minnesota River Congress meeting in Mankato Thursday night. Chris Lenhart of the ...

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 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Some lawmakers' doubts about whether drainage tiling of farm fields would help ease spring flooding did not prevent the North Dakota House on Wednesday from approving legislation ...

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 ...

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 ...