Drainage vital to area farming; complex to regulate
KOSSUTH COUNTY – Possibly the toughest decisions or even the most difficult issues for the Kossuth County Board of Supervisors involve farm drainage.
“Drainage improves a farmer’s land, so it is more productive,” said Kossuth Supervisor Roger Tjarks. “That is what we all want, but we don’t necessarily come to the same conclusion on how to do it. Without drainage, we wouldn’t be farming any ground at all. It would be just mosquitoes and pasture.”