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 ...

FARGO, N.D. -- The region's biggest franchise in independent crop consulting is diversifying into field drainage tile installation. Centrol of Twin Valley, Minn., now describes itself as the region's ...

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 ...

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, Iowa farmers and other ...

HERMAN, Minn. - Many farmers installed farm drainage tile this fall. Trevor Schiele can attest to that. He works for New Horizons in Herman, which purchased Miles Tiling. Schiele's crews have worked ...

Drainage tiles about 4 feet below the ground surface are used throughout the Midwest to drain soils that are seasonally to perennially wet. They enable earlier planting, improve soil aeration and ...

Doug Doughty feeds his livestock June 2 in Livingston County, Mo. In addition to his 1,200-acre crop operation, Doughty owns roughly 20 cattle, two horses and a collection of farm cats and dogs. He ...

AgweekTV this week looks at the House Ag Committee's new leadership and the reaction to it, a new food company started by three farm daughters, the gift of being able to install drain tile in December ...

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 ...