Improving farm drainage tiles in Illinois can be very challenging because most farmland is owned by absentee landowners ...

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FARGO, N.D. -- My wife and I are contemplating another season of flood fighting in south Fargo, N.D. We've helped fill sandbags each year for the past two years but never had to place them around our ...

WASHINGTON -- As usual in the Red River Valley this time of year, there was a lot of talk about the potential for spring flooding. There's much discussion about the forecast accuracy and the area's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful ...

Around 10,000 years ago, the last glacier retreated from the Fairbury area. The glacier leveled the farmland and left excellent soil. The downside of the flat land was there was no easy way for water ...