This commentary is by John Roberts of Cornwall, executive director of a farmer advocacy group called the Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition, based in Middlebury. Farming, like most human activity, ...

The Everglades are a treasured part of South Florida's environment and critical habitat for countless plant and animal species. New numbers show efforts to reduce the number of excess nutrients ...

BARDWELL, Ky. — Red, yellow and purple flowers reach up past Joel Reddick’s knees and stretch across his family’s farm in Carlisle County, teeming with bees, birds and other life. He walks through the ...

The latest report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Hypoxia Task Force concludes farmers and ranchers are making progress in reducing nitrogen runoff in the Mississippi River watershed, but ...

Dennis Vennekotter stands in a field of corn on his farm in northwest Ohio's Putnam County. The farm has been in his family for over a century. Putnam County’s Vennekotter Farms is more than five ...

The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy has been updated to reflect increased access to data and new practices, including a precision ag-tool to optimize nitrogen application.The nutrient reduction ...

Runoff from fertilized farm fields across the nation’s largest watershed has created a polluted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico — with little sign of slowing down. What can be done to stem the flow?

Agricultural practices that contribute to nutrient pollution came in for severe criticism at a Midwest regional roundtable Monday hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of ...

Illinois is one of 11 states in the Mississippi River basin that have pledged to develop strategies to reduce the polluting nutrient loads leaving their borders. It's an effort to better fulfill a ...

Water runs off a central Illinois farm into the East Branch Embarras River through a tile drainage pipe. When it rains on Joe Rothermel’s central Illinois farm, most of the water drains into the ...