One of the largest fertilizer manufacturing plants in the world sits about six miles southwest of the Polk County hamlet...
Cover Crops Look to be Changing Runoff Dynamics in Kansas
This spring and summer have been exciting months at the Kansas Agricultural Watershed (KAW) Field Research Facility. Nathan Nelson, Professor...
Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows
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Can a Wetland Help a Farm? Ask These Family Farmers
The Mackinaw River on Franklin Demonstration Farm in central Illinois. Photo © Cristina Rutter for The Nature Conservancy In the...
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...