The 2025 Innovation at Work series illustrates why Iowa State University is a trusted partner. Through research, teaching, service and extension, Iowa State has a long history of providing proactive ...

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

In Iowa, the powerful Farm Bureau and other ag industry groups oppose regulations that limit fertilizer application or require farmers to clean up the pollution coming off their land.

Central Iowa's growing data centers use a lot of water to cool their equipment. Are they contributing to the current water ...

While nitrate levels may briefly drop immediately following rainfall, levels will often rise even higher with new upstream ...

Iowa backs an industry-friendly fix for farm pollution, despite weak results An investigation by APM Reports shows Iowa's new conservation tool isn't as effective as promised.

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.

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans.

Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed manure to flow into a creek, where it killed small fish for miles, according to the ...

Iowa Learning Farms will host a wetland field day on April 10, from 12-2 p.m. at the New Haven Mennonite Community Center near Osage.

In Iowa, the powerful Farm Bureau and other ag industry groups oppose regulations that limit fertilizer application or require farmers to clean up the pollution coming off their land.

Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed manure to flow into a creek, where it killed small fish for miles, according to ...