PORTAGE, Wis. -- More than 40 acres of former farmland northwest of Portage will be restored to wetland next year, the first Columbia County p…
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“We have a mix of good cropland with lots of shallow wetlands, which are important for wildlife and water. We hope to demonstrate a best-case scenario to manage the two together.”
TAMMS, Ill. — At the confluence of the Mississippi and Cache rivers in Illinois’ southern-most county, farmers and landowners in Dogtooth Bend…
Don Parrish is glad the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule regarding the Waters of the United States (WOTUS), but he doe…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Many farmers have Fish and Wildlife Service wetland easements on their property, and for some of those easements, there has…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The Trump administration on Jan. 23 ended federal protection for many of the nation’s millions of miles of streams, ar…
“Together we’re going to be able to make sure that this part of the world continues to feed the planet and this part of the world continues to be the duck factory,” Ducks Unlimited CEO Adam Putnam said, signing off on a new demonstration farm in South Dakota.
After two very wet years and an extreme winter in South Dakota, Dakotafest will be the place to go for information on the newest drainage practices, as well as how to design the perfect water management system for each individual operation. The centerpiece to the drainage discussions at Dakotafest will be a 11 a.m. talk at the education building Thursday, Aug. 22.
Southeastern South Dakota producers have been bogged down with drainage issues this year, and producers can hear some ideas for managing drain…
Wetland easements have the potential to remove more than 56 million pounds of nitrogen and 730,000 pounds of phosphorous from urban and agricu…
The first agriculture Wetland Mitigation Bank credits are now available to farmers through the South Dakota Ag Wetland Exchange.
The Bien family has been careful caretakers of their land at the tip of the Coteau Prairie in northeastern South Dakota for generations, but i…
A variety of agricultural conservation practices are available to reduce the amount of nitrogen leaving fields and traveling downstream.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — There has been success in implementing flood prevention and water quality improvements in the Cedar River Watershed in the…
The most cost-effective practice for reducing nutrient loads to the Gulf would generally be optimally placed wetland restoration, especially in the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee sub-basins.
Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc. and students from Wausau East High School in Wausau, Wisconsin, will join fo…
President Donald Trump may be a New York businessman, but farmers feel he understands them.
PRINCETON, Ill. — Larry Lawson and his daughter, Hazel Sims, farmland owners in western Illinois, want to preserve the legacy of the land wher…
DES MOINES — The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy Annual Progress Report was released Dec. 12, highlighting funding, outreach and progress to …
COWELL, Iowa — The wetland and CRP grasses and flowers on farmland owned by Doug Bohlen’s father, Randy, are reducing flooding, removing nitrates from tile water and creating wildlife habitat.
Airboating — the Nebraska way
In Nebraska, airboating means more than whisking through some soggy wetlands.
Farmer Mike Elsen is a believer in what drain tile can do to boost production in his wet northeastern South Dakota fields.
CHARLES CITY, Iowa — For Charles City farmers Dean and Linda Tjaden, constructing a Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program wetland is partly about heritage.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — If the man who bought an 80-acre farm in Macon County in 2010 knew what the future held, he may have reconsidered that decision.