Buffer strip plan won’t require 50 feet around ditches
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.
Clean water may not come easy
Everyone professes to want clean water,” Gov. Mark Dayton said during his State of the State Address Friday evening. “Too many, however, don’t want to do what’s necessary to get it.” ...
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A vegetative strip by any other name still helps
DOUGLAS COUNTY — Prairie strips, buffer strips, vegetative strips, terraces - a strip by any other name is still doing good ...
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The role of farmers in water quality
Emery Davis (right) a conservation agronomist with Heartland Co-Op describes a bioreactor to Iowa Secretary of Agriculture ...