I am responding to the Our View editorial “Minnesota River needs new driving force” that was published on Sept. 9. The editorial pertained to the Citizens Advisory Committee report on the Minnesota ...

Subsurface tiling has been around a long time, with early iterations made of concrete and clay. The difference today is the relative speed and ease with which plastic tiling can be positioned ...

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 ...

Last Sunday I published on these pages a column about farmland drainage and specifically about pattern tiling, which has become commonplace throughout Minnesota in recent decades to the detriment, I ...

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The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land, with Wood, Stones, Ploughs, and Open Ditches, and especially with Tiles; including Tables of Raintall ...

That is the hot question among farmers, college professors, the government and Iowa residents after extensive flooding in recent years. But tiling — the adding of porous tiles or perforated plastic ...

A federal judge says the Iowa Supreme Court should settle legal questions about whether farmland drainage districts can be held liable for water pollution downstream before a lawsuit filed by a Des ...

Vermont dairy farm fields. Photo by Terry J. Allen/VTDigger [A] legislative committee decided Thursday to postpone a vote on amending farm water quality rules following objections from environmental ...

The wet spring of 2008 was a dramatic reminder—as if you needed one—of how much drainage impacts crop yield. The yield map for a field belonging to Keith Morgan of LeRoy, Ill., tells a typical story: ...

The corn succumbing to the forks of Brandon Fast’s combine this autumn morning is green. It shouldn’t be. But the floods of June are finally being felt. “Two years ago, this was 270 bushel an acre,” ...