Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

After Hurricane Isabel in 2003, Great Falls on the Potomac River was overwhelmed by muddy floodwater carrying soil washed from historic upland farms. Precise measurement of soil erosion over large ...

Farmers and rivers have a close, though not always friendly, relationship with one another. Rivers can create prized farmland, but they also flood fields and the communities built alongside them. What ...

Planting strips of grass across slopes is a standard technique to control soil erosion. Usually, the strips are planted to cool-season grasses, and the practice is used randomly within a watershed, ...

A photo of Meadow Road submitted to the Montague Conservation Commission in summer 2024 of work being done by Falls Farm. The state Department of Environmental Protection is fining Falls Farm, which ...

Ann Bailey discusses the problem of soil erosion and why farmers should consider ways to stop erosion now instead of being forced to do it by people without farming backgrounds. Buried machinery in a ...

MANKATO — A dramatic increase in the flows of area rivers and the related damage they bring was a focus of the Minnesota River Congress meeting in Mankato Thursday night. Chris Lenhart of the ...

Precautions taken in recent years to reduce soil erosion on Iowa farmland have shown progress is being made, but more needs to be done as the state has lost more than 15 million tons of soil in ...

The Montague Conservation Commission meets with Falls Farm representatives on July 18. On Thursday, the board’s Sunderland counterparts voted to have the state Department of Environmental Protection ...