A plan to create stricter rules for buffer strips beside state waters, and provide a funding mechanism for existing rules passed in the Minnesota House at 11:45 p.m. May 18, just before deadline.

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 ...