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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC) Member Companies and Dr. Dan Jaynes with the National Laboratory for Agricultural & The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farm drainage is a relatively straightforward process. Farmers bury a series of underground tile lines in their fields with the tile emptying into the open ditches that people are accustomed to seeing ...