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Farmers are dealing with more and heavier rainfall events throughout the Upper Midwest. Some farmers install drainage tiles and trenches to handle the water, but that can lead to soil erosion and flooding downstream.

Farmers use different terms but share similar motives for making their operations more resilient to extreme weather conditions.

A changing climate is causing rain to fall in harder bursts that push back planting seasons and drown crops in the Mississippi River farm country.

A changing climate is causing rain to fall in harder bursts that push back planting seasons and drown crops in Mississippi River farm country.

For farmers across the nation, implementing conservation practices into existing row-crop operations has playe...

A hotter atmosphere is causing rain to fall in harder bursts, pushing back planting seasons and drowning crops.

A new Plowprint report from WWF reveals that 1.8 million acres of grassland habitat in the Great Plains of U.S., Canada, and Mexico were plowed up in 2020, primarily for row crop agriculture.

Here at NRCS and the Soil and Water Conservation District, we encourage agriculture producers and landowners to apply for the Conservation Stewardship Program. Whether you are seeking to improve or diversify current conservation systems already in place or install new practices altogether, the program provides […]

Farmers are dealing with more and heavier rainfall events throughout the Upper Midwest. Some farmers install drainage tiles and trenches to handle the water, but that can lead to soil erosion and flooding downstream.

Farmers are dealing with more and heavier rainfall events throughout the Upper Midwest. Some farmers install drainage tiles and trenches to handle the water, but that can lead to soil erosion and flooding downstream.