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 ...

Creeks are protected waterways in Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Government policies -- one state and one federal -- are starting to make it more difficult to receive drain tile permits in the Red River Valley and the rest of North Dakota. Max Fuxa, ...

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FARGO, N.D. -- The region's biggest franchise in independent crop consulting is diversifying into field drainage tile installation. Centrol of Twin Valley, Minn., now describes itself as the region's ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Fish in the Gulf of Mexico might one day owe their lives to researchers at the University of Illinois, who are testing devices that can break down nitrates in drainage from farm ...

BUXTON, N.D. - Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields to get a faster start on ...

The corn succumbing to the forks of Brandon Fast’s combine this autumn morning is green. It shouldn’t be. But the floods of June are finally being felt. “Two years ago, this was 270 bushel an acre,” ...

Kim Gorans, center, president of Gorans Brothers Farms, his cropping manager, Nick Bjornberg, right, and Gorans' neighbor, Allan Bjornberg, were among those bringing insight to the data and ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Fish in the Gulf of Mexico might one day owe their lives to researchers at the University of Illinois, who are testing devices that can break down nitrates in drainage from farm ...

MOUNTAIN LAKE, MINN. – The corn succumbing to the forks of Brandon Fast’s combine this autumn morning is green. It shouldn’t be. But the floods of June are finally being felt. “Two years ago, this was ...