FARGO, N.D. -- Activity in field tile drainage in the Red River Valley is up from last year -- again, industry officials say. "One guy told me that in this Red River Valley he's always six weeks from ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. of Hilliard, Ohio, fired up the first new drainage pipe manufacturing plant in the central Red River Valley in mid-March. Drain tile installation has ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- All right, so you're installing tile drainage to improve yields on your farm. Now you might want to think about adding tools for drainage water management, said Gary Sands, an ...

It is indisputable that water runoff from field tile drainage contributes to flooding, and it may be a determinative factor in that regard because the amount of water in each watershed that flows from ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River basin, which causes a ...

Tile drainage systems play an essential role in modern agricultural management by facilitating the removal of excess water from soils, thereby enhancing crop production and mitigating waterlogging ...

Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot that can detect nitrates and monitor the condition of drainage tiles to help farmers better ...

In many areas, the words “drainage” and “tile” are synonymous. But for farmers such as Leon Wendte—a retired soil conservationist who farms with his brother Roy in south-central Illinois near Altamont ...

I was the new kid on the block when this project started in 1982,” said Eileen Kladivko, professor of agronomy at Purdue University. “I knew almost nothing about drainage, but that quickly changed.” ...

It appears from the farmer's tax guide that field drainage tile is a sec. 179 deduction for 2010 and 2011. Does that include both the labor and materials cost? Is there a limit on the amount I can ...