FARMING

A healthy high-yield crop benefits everyone. It takes long hours of hard work to achieve this goal, just as it take long hours of hard work to be successful in any venture.

Contour farming and conservation tillage, when used in the proper situations, can prevent excessive soil erosion.

Buffer strips of natural vegetation, when installed along streams and riverbanks, help to filter-out solids in runoff prior to entering the streams and rivers. This in turn reduces the turbidity of the water.

Placing grass or rock buffers around tile intakes can help to reduce excessive soil runoff.

The Lower Minnesota River Watershed District, being on the downstream end of the entire Minnesota River basin, is the receiving body for all the things, good and bad, which float down the river.