Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa...
Attack of the Killer Algae
Photo: Algal bloom on Lake Erie A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal...
Simple River-Cleaning Tactics That Big Farms Ignore
Iowa is the largest corn producer in the U.S.—and the second largest producer of nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River...
A look at farm runoff and the worsening algae plague
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie’s Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Chemicals and...
Easy Fix: How to Stop Poisoning Fish in the Gulf of Mexico
Saturated buffer along unnamed tributary to the Skunk River, Iowa. Photo by Kent Heikens USDA, Agricultural Research Service. Fertilizer used...