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 ...
Standing beside a major new infrastructure project in rural Buckinghamshire on a scorching August afternoon, a lack of water seems more of an issue than too much of it. But when the rains do return, ...
WEST SALEM — Matthew Lynch may not farm the best soil in Illinois. But he’s doing what he can to preserve it. He is an active participant in conservation practices that he said he hopes will keep his ...
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, ...
The helicopter landed in the western hills above the San Joaquin Valley and out of the dust walked President John F. Kennedy. It was Aug. 18, 1962, and the sun would not let go. In the hollow of the ...
The role of effective drainage in helping farmers to meet both environmental and productivity targets is the focus of an industry-wide research project which kicks off this autumn. Believed to be the ...
Scott Turman walks through his farmland where the Spire STL Pipeline was buried on his property north of Jerseyville on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Turman says the exposed rocks and erosion on the land ...