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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Brian Carlson grew up familiar with Iowa agriculture as his father and grandfather farmed in Benton ...

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 ...

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 ...