New this year, attendees will visit a wheat stubble field on Beecher Road to learn about soil health, no-till planter setup ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says about 10 million acres of farm fields in Illinois are tiled. The tiles, typically 4 to 5 feet underground, pull excess water from fields.

Ensuring fields drain efficiently requires continuous maintenance and investment in field drainage infrastructure. This is where DT Stewart & Sons, a long-established drainage contracting business, ...

Studies conducted on Danish agricultural fields have revealed that tile drainage significantly moderates the water table fluctuation and alters groundwater flow patterns by providing preferential ...

The Conservation Drainage School will take place Aug. 26–28 at the Borlaug Learning Center on ISU’s Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm near Nashua, Iowa.

An extra $70,000 is being added to the Thomas Varughese Field Drainage Improvement project to help fix ongoing drainage issues that have delayed spring openings and increased maintenance.

More farm drainage systems in southern Minnesota are being upgraded because the current systems are old and because more rainfall makes it harder for the systems to remove water quickly from fields.

Meanwhile, more scrutiny is focused on how the expanded farm field drainage systems have dramatically increased the flow of water into ravines, creeks and rivers. Rafferty said that comparing Blue ...