Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s administration is proposing a measure to encourage people to install buffer strips between agricultural land and waterways. Hunter Roberts, a policy adviser to the governor, ...

Minnesota farmers are hovering near 99% compliance with a buffer law that’s been enforced since 2017. That’s a sign of success in a state filled with waterways, wetlands and over 14,000 lakes that are ...

When a community grows in the Midwest, especially in East Central Illinois, chances are that the expansion will involve farmland. Trouble is, urban residents moving into the countryside and farms ...

South Dakota’s governor signed a bill that would encourage people to install buffer strips between agricultural land and waterways. Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed the bill Wednesday. It passed ...

CHOKIO, Minn. - A controversial bill passed during the last legislative session that requires buffer strips along public waters and public ditches "stopped something that would have been a lot worse," ...

Although riparian forest buffers are often designed primarily for water quality benefits, these practices can also include woody species that provide products such as nuts, fruit, and decorative woody ...

COURTLAND — They wouldn’t support a repeal of mandated buffer strips but they are open to further refining the requirements, two area lawmakers told frustrated farmers Saturday morning. Nearly 100 ...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has ceded ground to farm interests, Republicans and some Democrats over a contentious aspect of his plan to require vegetative buffer strips to help protect water ...

Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

Water hazards create strategic and aesthetic interest and they enhance the environmental value of golf courses. They also can hold and filter stormwater runoff from the course and surrounding ...

ST. PAUL-Landowners have new state funding and a website to help them comply with a 2015 law requiring vegetative buffer strips to protect Minnesota's waters. The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil ...

PIERRE, S.D. - A bill in the South Dakota legislature would give landowners a tax break for keeping riparian buffer strips along streams, rivers and lakes. Senate Bill 66 would define a riparian ...