MOORHEAD, Minn. -- With land values increasing, more farmers are paying the expenses for tile-draining land that they rent, says Dwight Aakre, one of the speakers at the Northwest Minnesota Region Ag ...

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Last Sunday I published on these pages a column about farmland drainage and specifically about pattern tiling, which has become commonplace throughout Minnesota in recent decades to the detriment, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s not much doubt that Osage’s Dallas Kuper is a man with a plan. The former Osage High School wrestling standout and 2008 graduate of Iowa State University has started a new local business ...

PANKEYVILLE — Truitt Clements has crisscrossed a lot of fields lately. Clements, who was shooting navigation lines recently in a 70-acre field in Saline County, has seen farm drainage tiling take off ...

NASHUA, Iowa — Morgan McCarty and Michael Hiler had different reasons for attending the Iowa Drainage School but both said the school met their expectations. McCarty farms with his parents and his ...

Not two miles from my central Illinois home, a farmer’s next crop — a dozen rolls of eight-inch, black plastic drainage pipe — wait to be planted several feet deep in this year’s browning corn stubble ...