ISU Extension will cover the planning, design and installation of drainage water quality improvement practices at the ...

Based at Iowa State, Iowa Learning Farms has created a statewide network of farmer partners ... small reservoir to serve as a DWR system test site. The reservoir collects field drainage and rainfall ...

(Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that ... as methane that can be used to heat or ...

The EPA has spent more than two decades urging states to contain the runoff from Midwest farms that flows into ... as a percentage of the entire field's drainage capacity. The NRCS lowered its ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and ... and a saturated buffer to treat water from field tile drainage. While corn and soybeans dominate ...

Water in Iowa has a lot of nitrate because of all the farmland across the state. The compound is a byproduct that comes out ...

Drainage tile is the “main delivery mechanism for nitrates from farm fields to the stream network,” said Chris Jones, a retired hydrologist from the University of Iowa. Before tiles existed ...

Kurt Hoeft, Iowa Drainage District Association wetland ... in a drawing for ISU Prairie Strips honey. Iowa Learning Farms field days and workshops are supported by the USDA Natural Resources ...

The EPA has spent more than two decades urging states to contain the runoff from Midwest farms ... field acreage or require changes in farming practices. Saturated buffers connect to tile drainage ...

Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed manure ... can be used to heat or power farm operations.