A new practice is being tried in northwest Ohio as a way to increase water retention, reduce runoff, and reduce phosphorus laden sediment. Cascading grassed waterways are a new and innovative practice ...

An Ohio farm family uses a novel technique to keep rain from eroding grassed waterways: They cover them with blankets. These are not ordinary blankets, to be sure, but 16'-wide straw blankets ...

Joe and Jane Himmer are Olmsted County's 2011 Outstanding Conservationists. They are pictured on their farm near Stewartville. Their embankment pond is in the background. "You have to be good stewards ...

As our waterway construction season has come to an end for 2016, it is time to reflect and look forward to the future. It was a very productive waterway season for Defiance SWCD. We completed designs ...

GOODHUE, Minn. — Sinkholes, grassed waterways and feedlot fixes were among the conservation projects highlighted during a 21⁄2-hour tour of three Goodhue County watersheds on a cold, rainy afternoon ...