The Minnesota Department of Health delivered good and bad news to residents this past week. The bad: A map developed by the Department of Health shows how 40 percent of the state’s homes have ...

“The Soil Health Financial Assistance Grant helps offset equipment costs and ensures more farmers are engaged in soil health ...

Last summer, the state Department of Agriculture released a report on vegetative field cover and the potential that winter cover crops could play in protecting soil and combating nitrogen ...

Once he took over the family farm in the 1990s, Peterson expanded conservation practices on the land he works — minimally tilling the soil, or in some cases, not tilling the soil, when planting.