Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa...
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...
Report Spotlights Nitrate Contamination in Drinking Water Across the USA
Photo: iStock/Charlie Bishop Scientists have known for decades that drinking water contaminated by fertilizer nitrates can pose a threat to...
USDA: study finds no-till farming alone not sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate
photo: A no-till field. INDIANAPOLIS – A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture answers a long-debated...
Millions consumed potentially unsafe drinking water in the past 10 years
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a “D” grade for the quality of its drinking water systems...