WILLMAR -- It turns out the state's buffer law -- part of which takes effect this fall -- does not necessarily mean that vegetation must be planted between farm fields and drainage ditches or public ...

ST. PAUL - Landowners are learning what types of alternative practices will be allowed as options to meet Minnesota's new buffer law. The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources released a list of ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota landowners have some more options for complying with the state's buffer strips law. The 2015 law requires buffer strips of perennial vegetation between farm fields and waterways ...

For critics of the Minnesota buffer-strip law, the easy solution is to present a viable alternative plan that would have the same desired effect. The buffer-strip law is an attempt to slow the ...