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 ...

MITCHELL, S.D. -- With record-setting rain totals in several areas, South Dakota farmers have started looking to a familiar solution to avoid flooding in the future. After a rainy summer and fall, ...

MITCHELL | With record-setting rain totals in several areas, South Dakota farmers have started looking to a familiar solution to avoid flooding in the future. After a rainy summer and fall, interest ...

Before the installation of a new septic tank and finger system, this homeowner was curious about where the existing tank and drainage tile were located in their yard. The homesite was mapped to locate ...

Rick Rutherford of Rutherford Farms used tile drainage to help manage a saline area in a field at his Manitoba farm. Here’s ...

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 ...

An international manufacturer of corrugated plastic pipe used to tile-drain farmland, a booming industry in the Red River Valley, is coming to Buxton, N.D. Advanced Drainage Systems, based in Hilliard ...

WAHPETON, N.D. — Dustin Mumm on Dec. 4, 2020, watched a drain tile crew install subsurface drainage on a 400-acre field. He was as ecstatic as kid watching presents piling up under the tree. “I just ...

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 ...

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 ...