AMES, Iowa – Massive networks of drains, pipes and tiles that enable food production on much of the world’s most productive cropland are due for expansion and replacement to meet the demands of ...

The Minnesota Corn and Soybean growers associations have asked a judge to rule that the MPCA does not have authority under ...

Tile drainage is a system of pipes installed below ground to remove excess water from farmland soil. Just as irrigation is often necessary to deliver water to soil and crops, drainage is important in ...

The sight of the first snow on the horizon of Bill Wiley’s 500-acre farm in Shelby County, Ohio, is a welcome relief. The 2024 growing season has been incredibly dry. “We are about eight inches behind ...

MAPLETON — A new drainage system on the edge of Mapleton is described by one expert as the poster child for how new systems should and will have to be designed and built. Despite all the work on the ...

The Blue Earth River is 50 percent wider along its entire length than it was seven decades ago, largely because a generation of artificial drainage on the surrounding landscape has doubled the flow of ...