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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might be time to take a fresh look at farm drainage systems. Two studies conducted by Farm Journal indicate managing the water table can pay off in higher yields. Water table management is a new ...

Tile drainage in the Mississippi Basin is one of the great advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing highly productive agriculture in what was once land too wet to farm. In fact, installation ...

Brad Thykeson first installed tile drainage in 2009. The Portland, N.D., farmer is quick to say he hasn't become an expert since then -- but he's learned enough to offer a few pointers to other area ...

Minnesota’s farmlands are being drain-tiled at a breakneck pace, prompting an often sharp debate that pits better crop yields against runoff and water-quality concerns. To understand how quickly tile ...