Omaha.com

To help crops, Iowa farmers install more drainage tile

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, Iowa farmers and other ...
Grand Forks Herald

Record-setting flood year in South Dakota raising interest in tiling fields

MITCHELL, S.D. -- With record-setting rain totals in several areas, South Dakota farmers have started looking to a familiar solution to avoid flooding in the future. After a rainy summer and fall, ...
Grand Forks Herald

Drainage design: 'Controlled' field drains being adapted in Red River Valley

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 ...
Rapid City Journal

Field of drains: Record-setting flood year raising interest in tile

MITCHELL | With record-setting rain totals in several areas, South Dakota farmers have started looking to a familiar solution to avoid flooding in the future. After a rainy summer and fall, interest ...
The Western Producer

VIDEO: Tile drainage benefits may take longer than farmers think

Rick Rutherford of Rutherford Farms used tile drainage to help manage a saline area in a field at his Manitoba farm. Here’s ...
Yahoo

‘We should have a sense of urgency’ as farm drainage tile drives nutrient pollution

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 ...
inforum

Taking a long-term view supporters say tile drainage still makes sense

GRAND FORKS - 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 sense ...
AG Week

Tile drainage still makes sense, supporters say

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 ...
The Gazette

Increase of drainage tile fuels nutrient pollution

Doug Doughty feeds his livestock June 2 in Livingston County, Mo. In addition to his 1,200-acre crop operation, Doughty owns roughly 20 cattle, two horses and a collection of farm cats and dogs. He ...
AG Week

Red River Valley land prices make field tile business hum

BUXTON, N.D. -- On Dec. 15, Ross Johnson of Mayville, N.D., showed a visitor around a 10-year-old building he's bought that soon will contain businesses related to field tiling. Originally, this was ...
Oregonian

Are field drain tiles Section 179 property?

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 ...