Minnesota farmers are hovering near 99% compliance with a buffer law that’s been enforced since 2017. That’s a sign of success in a state filled with waterways, wetlands and over 14,000 lakes that are ...

The buffer strip law in Minnesota has been a hot topic, but what exactly is it, why has it been so contentious and what’s going on at the state and local level? Here is a guide to the controversial ...

The citizens of McLeod County need to trust their elected county commissioners to act in good faith and ensure the rights of its citizens are protected. Two areas of concern are implementation of the ...

Researcher Miguel Salceda tests the water from a well at the MU Horticulture and Agriculture Research Center in New Franklin. Salceda’s work focuses on how buffer strips filter out high levels of ...

Wetland buffer zones and naturally vegetated buffer strips may expand if two articles proposed at the annual town meeting in Mashpee are approved — and future construction projects could be affected.

Required land strips aid water quality, but enforcement is uneven. Farmer Ken Betzold has planted 50-foot-wide buffer strips on more than 1½ miles of riverland he owns in Dakota County. And not ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A break on property taxes hasn’t spurred much participation in a cleaner-water program meant to reduce runoff from agricultural fields and pastures in South Dakota. So state ...

If you have farmland along a county ditch, judicial ditch, or township road, you will be affected. As the Department of Natural Resources adds ditches to their buffer maps, additional land will be ...

DES MOINES - The state's Soil Conservation & Water Committee on Thursday rejected resolutions calling for mandatory conservation measures - a proposal supported earlier this year by hundreds of county ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An effort to get landowners in the Big Sioux River Watershed District to plant buffer strips in the watershed has not been successful, a state official said Thursday. Hunter ...