Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful ...

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 ...

The research team, led by Illinois Sustainable Technology Center research scientist Wei Zheng, left, and ISTC postdoctoral researcher Hongxu Zhou, added a “designer biochar” water-treatment component ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands -- from southwest Minnesota to across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio -- are the biggest contributors of nitrogen runoff into ...

WEST SALEM — Matthew Lynch may not farm the best soil in Illinois. But he’s doing what he can to preserve it. He is an active participant in conservation practices that he said he hopes will keep his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A farm field tile outlet. Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot ...

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 ...

Most crops grown in Minnesota don’t do well under excessively wet conditions. That’s especially true with heavy clay soils that don’t drain well. Many farmers install underground drainage pipes, also ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields ...

MOORHEAD, Minn.-Farmer Scott Gillespie of Johnson, near the headwaters of the Red River in far western Minnesota, said farmers can't just do it by themselves in trying to control flooding in the ...

A proposed improvement to a large drainage ditch system near Mapleton has the Department of Natural Resources, conservation groups and downriver communities calling for changes in the project, ...