I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Garth Kruger is taking the long view on tile drainage, aka "agricultural subsurface drainage" and "subsurface water management." Though tile drainage might not make great financial ...

URBANA – Tile drainage in the Mississippi Basin is one of the great advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing highly productive agriculture in what was once land too wet to farm. In fact, ...

Midwestern soils are among the most productive in the world, thanks in part to extensive tile drainage systems that remove excess water from crop fields. But water isn't the only thing flowing through ...

OWATONNA, Minn. — A study looking into how controlled tile drainage effects water flow, crop yield and nutrient loads leaving a farm field in Redwood County has provided some answers but also many ...

Counterintuitive as it may seem, farm fields with the best tile drainage systems generally produced the highest yields during last year's drought, area farmers and other experts say. “I saw that right ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

When Jim Pallister, a farmer near Portage la Prairie, MB, shared his crop update in late July on X-Twitter, he mentioned, “Corn is tasseling, wheat keeps filling, and beans are flowering. Tile ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields ...