Harvest season is underway for crops such as soybeans and corn, but farmers’ yields are piling up. Near-historic low water levels on the Mississippi River are slowing down barges and driving up shipping costs. With lower cargo capacity, shipments are getting backlogged. And until barge traffic picks
After floods hammered St. Louis and eastern Kentucky this summer, the Ag & Water Desk wanted to know: Is rainfall increasing in the Mississippi River basin?
Researchers want to know how co-locating solar and crops — a practice known as "agrivoltaics" — could benefit farmers and be a salve to a growing strain in the Corn Belt, where rural residents and towns are pushing back on solar projects that can often take farmland out of production.
Las agencias federales y estatales gastan millones de dólares cada año para mantener a las carpas invasoras destructivas fuera de los Grandes Lagos. Mientras tanto, al menos 25 especies destructivas, como pulgas de agua y camarones rojos, se están acercando poco a poco a la cuenca del río Mississipp
