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, ...

Eagle Ditcher inventor and entrepreneur Edwin Erickson is ready to cut a wider swath in the farm implement market. Erickson's family-run Erickson Manufacturing Co. has teamed with Sheyenne Tooling and ...

The Minnesota Corn Growers Association is heading to the state Capitol Tuesday to make the case for a farming practice that is a flashpoint with environmental groups.

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 ...