WEST FARGO - Tile drainage of farm fields has been cast as a villain that aggravates flooding in the Red River Valley and held out as a great hope for better managing runoff to minimize flooding. The ...

BUXTON, N.D. - Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields to get a faster start on ...

BUXTON, N.D. - Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields to get a faster start on ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River basin, which causes a ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. of Hilliard, Ohio, fired up the first new drainage pipe manufacturing plant in the central Red River Valley in mid-March. Drain tile installation has ...

The explosion of new drain tile being dug into Minnesota’s farmlands should catch the eyes of conservationists and hunters, especially duck hunters and pheasant hunters. The regions of Minnesota most ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Drainage water management, a relatively new technology that can reduce negative water quality effects of drainage, as well as help maintain or increase crop yields, will be ...

In many areas, the words “drainage” and “tile” are synonymous. But for farmers such as Leon Wendte—a retired soil conservationist who farms with his brother Roy in south-central Illinois near Altamont ...

It appears from the farmer's tax guide that field drainage tile is a sec. 179 deduction for 2010 and 2011. Does that include both the labor and materials cost? Is there a limit on the amount I can ...