McLeod SWCD uses Reinvest in Minnesota’s various programs to compensate farmers who put in buffer strips on their land. Similarly, the Conservation Reserve Program rents land to be used as ...

So what’s a buffer strip? It’s an area along the lakeshore covered with perennial vegetation such as grasses, trees, and shrubs that act as a natural filter for runoff containing sediment ...

VENICE, Louisiana — Kindra Arnesen is a 46-year-old commercial fishing boat operator who has spent most of her life among the pelicans and bayous of southern Louisiana, near the juncture where the ...

Buffer strips were implemented to improve water quality, but their effectiveness is difficult to quantify While 99% of Minnesota farmers are compliant, some farmers want data showing them that the ...

So, please tell your Iowa house representatives to support HF 2029 which will require field buffer strips that average 50 feet and a minimum of 30 feet wide. It is possible to restore that quality ...

Buffer zone proposals are minimal at best, said Colombo If Colombo had it his way, he would increase both wetland buffer zones and naturally vegetated buffer strip footage to 200 feet.

Grass buffer strips are commonly used in crop production to reduce herbicide runoff. These practices are encouraged through incentives, regulations or laws, and are effective at lowering herbicide ...

A new study suggests we may have more opportunities to protect our waterways. That’s because one system for keeping too many nutrients out of streams could be used more widely than it is now. Known as ...

The resolution was modeled after a new state law in Minnesota that requires 50-foot buffer strips along lakes, rivers and streams, and 16.5 feet along ditches. Kevin Pope, a state soil conservation ...

In South Dakota, there are incentives available for buffer strips, but it’s on a voluntary basis, as officials cite the reluctance of farmers to be dictated to in regards to how they do their ...

I agree that the story in the Press & Dakotan on buffer strips (Sept. 15) was a good article but it failed to explain that it is more useful than just runoff. It does much more than that.