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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the outside, farming may seem simple. You plant something, watch it grow, and then harvest it. Farmers wish it were so easy. But in reality, it is a complex science spanning from what variety you ...

BUXTON, N.D. - Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields to get a faster start on ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — 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 ...

MUSCOTAH (KSNT) – As water management remains a key issue at the Kansas Statehouse, farmers across the state are taking matters into their own hands. With Kansas’ primary water sources facing ...