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 ...

I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

URBANA – 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, ...

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 ...

Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot that would detect nitrates and monitor tile health to help farmers keep their land productive.

On the outside, farming may seem simple. You plant something, watch it grow, and then harvest it. Farmers wish it were so easy. But in reality, it is a complex science spanning from what variety you ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields ...