An Ohio farm family uses a novel technique to keep rain from eroding grassed waterways: They cover them with blankets. These are not ordinary blankets, to be sure, but 16'-wide straw blankets ...

A new study that examines whether reliable prediction models could be created to identify eroded waterways from digital terrain information, in order to help farmers and conservation professionals do ...

Clark Porter has spent years studying sustainable agriculture practices. Over the last decade, he's implemented some of them on his farm near Reinbeck in rural Grundy County in central Iowa. Porter ...

PAULDING — The Paulding Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) aids landowners on a variety of best management practices (BMPs) that aid in the preservation of our soil and water resources.

A study of eight high-priority watersheds in Iowa found little increase in acres devoted to two key farm conservation practices over a three-year period, indicating taxpayers are getting minimal ...

Cost share funds allow for construction of grassed waterways, sediment traps, lake shore protection, riparian area management and buffer strips along impaired water bodies. Soil Health Improvement and ...

DES MOINES - Iowa officials say they have completed an effort to map conservation practices that is the most comprehensive inventory in the nation. An analysis of the results shows the value of the ...

KENTUCKY, USA — Governor Andy Beshear announced Monday that $4.3 Million in Tobacco Settlement Funds will be given to farms across the state. 387 Kentucky farms in 85 different counties will receive ...

MADISON, WI, AUGUST 10, 2009 -- Grassed waterways are placed in agricultural fields where runoff water tends to concentrate because they can substantially reduce soil erosion. Mapping techniques that ...