tile drainage

Nitrogen Pollution’s Farm Policy Roots

June 28, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Loon Commons blog, Water
corn, crop insurance, dead zone, diverse agriculture, Farm Bill, federal farm policy, Land Stewardship Project, monocrops, MPCA, nitrates, nitrogen fertilizer, perennials, row crops, tile drainage, water pollution, watersheds

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project Talk about ignoring the elephant in the room. When Minnesota environmental officials announced the results of a new major nitrogen pollution study on Thursday, they were…
Denying the Science, Derailing the Solutions

December 23, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
commodity groups, crop rotations, cross-compliance, Lake Pepin, Land Stewardship Letter, Land Stewardship Project, Minnesota River, Mississippi River, MPCA, no-till farming, Norm Senjem, row crops, sedimentation, snirt, soil erosion, tile drainage, water quality

I talked to a Todd County farmer yesterday who uses 100 percent no-till and other conservation measures to raise his crops. Conserving soil is important to him, and so he’s quite upset…
How to ‘Deal’ with NRCS, Drain a Wetland & Erode More Soil

March 26, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
crop farming, ecological services, flooding, NRCS, seasonal wetlands, soil erosion, tile drainage, Water, wetlands

While driving in southern Minnesota this week, I gazed upon acre-after-acre of black fields—a sign that despite a wet fall, a lot of intense tillage took place before the snow flew a…