Gov. Mark Dayton's reluctant decision last week to exclude private ditches from buffer strip mapping was an obvious setback to his hard-fought 2015 water-quality law. But the head of Minnesota's Board ...

In many areas, the words “drainage” and “tile” are synonymous. But for farmers such as Leon Wendte—a retired soil conservationist who farms with his brother Roy in south-central Illinois near Altamont ...

A proposed improvement to a large drainage ditch system near Mapleton has the Department of Natural Resources, conservation groups and downriver communities calling for changes in the project, ...

Ted Cruz says the Environmental Protection Agency has gone overboard in regulating farms by regulating even puddles and ditches. "They're hurting from a federal government whose policies have been ...

This past spring, we once again observed some farmers farming the back slopes of our county right of ways (ditches). Destroying the grass roots which hold the soil in place leads to our ditches ...