Growers are being urged to think ahead and create buffer strips to help keep pesticides out of water. Establishing 6m buffer strips on fields that will be used for winter break crops in 2011-12 is ...

Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

MORRIS, Minn. - An environmental listening session held recently in Chokio, Minn., was well attended. It was gratifying to see the interest in the environment, and that politicians other than ...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has ceded ground to farm interests, Republicans and some Democrats over a contentious aspect of his plan to require vegetative buffer strips to help protect water ...

"Buffer strips" of year-round vegetation are seen as one way to help protect water from farm runoff. New state laws require them along nearly every public waterway. On Tuesday, the state released a ...

FARMERS who have to rethink their rotations after the appalling winter, have been advised to consider the siting of permanent grass buffer strips to protect water. The Voluntary Initiative (VI) said ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. - A bill in the South Dakota legislature would give landowners a tax break for keeping riparian buffer strips along streams, rivers and lakes. Senate Bill 66 would define a riparian ...

ST. PAUL-Landowners have new state funding and a website to help them comply with a 2015 law requiring vegetative buffer strips to protect Minnesota's waters. The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil ...

Most Iowans of a certain age remember playing in a nearby stream or creek when they were kids. The commissioners of the Linn Soil and Water Conservation District certainly do. We all have wonderful ...