FARGO, N.D. -- Activity in field tile drainage in the Red River Valley is up from last year -- again, industry officials say. "One guy told me that in this Red River Valley he's always six weeks from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many farmers are investing in drainage to add value to land that has increased in value. Johnson says commercial installers often get preference from the company, and he suggested that some farmers ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. -- After suffering nearly two decades of wet fields and reduced yields, a growing number of area farmers are finding tile drainage more attractive. Tile drainage was among the topics at ...

Farmers who want to place drain tile under their land would no longer need a permit under a proposal under consideration by the Minnehaha County Commission. If the new ordinance is approved on Tuesday ...

BUXTON, N.D.-- You can see it from Interstate 29, as you pass the Buxton, N.D., exit, but that corral of black drain tile is a sign ofa significant chapter in the region's agricultural history -- a ...