The version of the buffer strip plan that passed in an agriculture ... “If you are going to require a landowner to plant grass instead of corn … in my mind that is taking,” Newman said.

Following the implementation of legislation championed by Gov. Mark Dayton, farmers in McLeod County and around the state took acres out of production, and planted vegetative strips along ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY — Prairie strips, buffer strips, vegetative strips, terraces - a strip by any other name is still doing good ...