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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 ...

I am responding to the Our View editorial “Minnesota River needs new driving force” that was published on Sept. 9. The editorial pertained to the Citizens Advisory Committee report on the Minnesota ...

Farm drainage is a relatively straightforward process. Farmers bury a series of underground tile lines in their fields with the tile emptying into the open ditches that people are accustomed to seeing ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information on the research this article was based on, visit the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation online, at this link to the article ...

Last Sunday I published on these pages a column about farmland drainage and specifically about pattern tiling, which has become commonplace throughout Minnesota in recent decades to the detriment, I ...

Join the 28,000 people who count on Daily Digger for local news. Delivered Monday-Saturday mornings. The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has filed a final update to farm water quality rules ...

The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land, with Wood, Stones, Ploughs, and Open Ditches, and especially with Tiles; including Tables of Raintall ...

Vermont dairy farm fields. Photo by Terry J. Allen/VTDigger [A] legislative committee decided Thursday to postpone a vote on amending farm water quality rules following objections from environmental ...

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 ...