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 ...

FARGO, N.D. -- The region's biggest franchise in independent crop consulting is diversifying into field drainage tile installation. Centrol of Twin Valley, Minn., now describes itself as the region's ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- All right, so you're installing tile drainage to improve yields on your farm. Now you might want to think about adding tools for drainage water management, said Gary Sands, an ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Activity in field tile drainage in the Red River Valley is up from last year -- again, industry officials say. "One guy told me that in this Red River Valley he's always six weeks from ...

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, Mo. -- An increased use of agricultural drainage tile is one reason meeting a 2025 deadline to reduce nitrate and phosphorus entering the Gulf of Mexico by 20% is unlikely. Drainage ...

Underneath 50 million-plus acres across the nation are miles of tile quietly keeping fields in prime condition for growing crops. Soils that tend to hold water longer, flat land that can’t shed water, ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. An increased use of agricultural drainage tile is one reason a 2025 deadline to reduce nitrate and ...