• PFI: Drainage Water Recycling and Double Cropping

    Lytton Lytton, Iowa

    Mark and Melissa Schleisman and their family raise popcorn, field corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, oats, cattle and hogs at M&M Farms in Calhoun County, Iowa. Soil and water conservation are…

  • PFI: Cleaning Water With Edge-of-Field Practices

    Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, Iowa

    Jim O’Connell and his son, Casey, specialize in corn and soybeans at O’Connell Farms in Linn County, Iowa. For the past 17 years, Jim has planted cover crops green into…

  • PFI: Oxbows to Improve Water Quality

    Webster City Webster City, Iowa

    In 2018, Selden Spencer purchased farmland along White Fox Creek in Hamilton County, Iowa. The 100-acre property, previously owned by Ray Fry, is a mixture of cropland, woodland, ravines and…

  • PFI: Cover Crops and Conservation Across All Acres

    Oskaloosa Oskaloosa, Iowa

    Jackson and Amanda Drost are part of Drost Farms, a multigenerational family farm in Mahaska County, Iowa, raising corn, soybeans and cattle. Around 2010, the Drosts flew on their first…