MADISON, WI, April 26, 2010-Grass buffer strips are commonly used in crop production to reduce herbicide runoff. These practices are encouraged through incentives, regulations or laws, and are ...

Research by scientists at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry suggests that buffer strips of grasses and other plants can trap and break down veterinary antibiotics in manure ...

In an agricultural economy, the land and the water are everything. They represent not only the pulse of economic opportunity, but also the quality of life that we all value. It demands a delicate ...

Gov. Mark Dayton and state water officials are reminding farmers and landowners of Wednesday’s deadline to install water quality buffers. The grass buffers are designed to filter farm pollution before ...

Nonpoint source pollution is the primary cause of the algae overgrowth that infiltrates eastern South Dakota lakes, rivers and ponds toward the end of every summer. The water's pollution can be traced ...

"Buffer strips" of year-round vegetation are seen as one way to help protect water from farm runoff. New state laws require them along nearly every public waterway. On Tuesday, the state released a ...

Harold Wolle, a corn and soybeans farmer near St. James, standing in his two acres of 16.5-feet brome grass buffer between his plants and a drainage ditch. Credit: MinnPost photo by Walker Orenstein ...

There was free money on the table for farmers this year, but most of them left it there. Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s buffer strip program was designed as a reward for farmers who put runoff-absorbing grass ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Research by scientists at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry suggests that buffer strips of grasses and other plants can trap and break down veterinary antibiotics in ...