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 ...

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 ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screenshot from Iowa Learning Farms) Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with ...

FARGO, N.D. -- After suffering nearly two decades of wet fields and reduced yields, a growing number of area farmers are finding tile drainage more attractive. Tile drainage was among the topics at ...

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 ...

One of the topics that the House Agriculture and Forestry Committee has followed for the last several years is tile drainage. For a while, tile drainage was viewed as a bad agricultural practice by ...

GRAND FORKS - 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 sense ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Drainage water management, a relatively new technology that can reduce negative water quality effects of drainage, as well as help maintain or increase crop yields, will be ...

WEST FARGO -- Tile drainage of farm fields has been cast as a villain that aggravates flooding in the Red River Valley, but also held out as a great hope for better managing runoff to minimize ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. - A decade of drowned-out fields has convinced Warren farmer Jon Hapka that it costs less to drain his fields than it does to allow standing water to shrink crop yields. Hapka, who ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - After an unusually rainy spring, farmers will have an opportunity to learn more about drainage water management during the Drainage Field Day, June 7-8 at the Davis Purdue ...

Well, folks, I’d like first to apologize. When I wrote about the lingering drought last time, I had no idea it would then rain every single day for two weeks! I think we can officially call the ...