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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nitrate levels in groundwater in many parts of Minnesota are rising. Best practices in agriculture can go a long way toward protecting water sources, public health Recent tax credit proposal ...

A plan to create stricter rules for buffer strips beside state waters, and provide a funding mechanism for existing rules passed in the Minnesota House at 11:45 p.m. May 18, just before deadline. But ...

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 ...