Of all the soil conservation compliance methods available today, grass waterways and buffer strips are among the most widely used. Buffer strips can be used to protect streams and ponds or can be ...

Minnesota farmers are hovering near 99% compliance with a buffer law that’s been enforced since 2017. That’s a sign of success in a state filled with waterways, wetlands and over 14,000 lakes that are ...

When a community grows in the Midwest, especially in East Central Illinois, chances are that the expansion will involve farmland. Trouble is, urban residents moving into the countryside and farms ...

The implementation of a new law will damage ecosystems in Minnesota by elevating phosphate levels in Minnesota waters. Phosphate has been identified as the most important cropland nutrient to prevent ...

WILLMAR, Minn. - While some parts of Minnesota farm country struggle with a new state law requiring buffer strips around pubic waters, implementation in Kandiyohi County's appears to be off to a good ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn.-I appreciate Mike Van Horn's words about Minnesota's buffer-strip law ("Buffer-strip law is 'unconstitutional land grab'," letter, Page A4, Feb. 28). I agree with him 100 percent ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A break on property taxes hasn’t spurred much participation in a cleaner-water program meant to reduce runoff from agricultural fields and pastures in South Dakota. So state ...

Minnesota farmers may have gotten a break on school referendum levies this year, but they didn't get long-sought tax relief on land given up for vegetative buffer strips this session. Now, lawmakers ...

If you have farmland along a county ditch, judicial ditch or township road, you will be affected by the the Minnesota Buffer Strip Land Grab. As the Department of Natural Resources adds ditches to ...