When a community grows in the Midwest, especially in East Central Illinois, chances are that the expansion will involve farmland. Trouble is, urban residents moving into the countryside and farms ...

Researchers know that adding natural buffers to the farm landscape can stop soil from vanishing. Now a scientist has found that more buffers are better, both for pleasing the eye and slowing erosion.

ST. PAUL - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has ceded ground to farm interests, Republicans and some Democrats over a contentious aspect of his plan to require vegetative buffer strips to help protect water ...