Drainage tile, a system farmers use to drain water from croplands, is also a contributor to the historic loss of up to about 100 million acres of wetlands in the U.S., researchers say.

Drainage tile is the “main delivery mechanism for nitrates from farm fields to the stream network,” said Chris Jones, a retired hydrologist from the University of Iowa.

Research on tile drainage for farms will be presented this month at a workshop in Sennett. The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program announced that Miner Institute Research Scientist ...

When heavy rain falls, it flows into the tiles, which empty into ditches that rush the water away from farm fields. These tiles drain some 55 million acres across the United States, according to a ...

A robot crawling through the tile underlying farm fields could help farmers pinpoint where nitrates are being lost, ... Nearly half of Iowa’s harvested cropland has tile drainage, ...

Soil-Max Gold Digger ZD1200. He settled on the firm’s smallest model, the ZD1200, after seeing it in action at another Borders farm. As the name suggests, the 1200 will work to a maximum depth ...

Download PDF. Co-Author Verenice Perez. The Supreme Court of Vermont (“Supreme Court”) in a May 24th opinion addressed issues stemming from a dairy farm’s installation of a drain tile system ...

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 ...