While Sauk Village is no longer an agricultural economy, its history as a farming community is still perceptible in the extant Lincoln-Lansing Ditch. In the mid-1920s, 60 local farmers organized a grassroots effort to drain 12,000 acres of farmland. Together, they created a series of ditches, known as the Lincoln-Lansing Ditch, with horse and plow. Before that time, the land was a wetland, unable to be sown or grazed for most of the year. Today, the presence of the remaining farms and residential subdivisions is made possible by these major efforts.