Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful ...

BUXTON, N.D. -- Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields ...

WEST FARGO -- Tile drainage of farm fields has been cast as a villain that aggravates flooding in the Red River Valley, but also held out as a great hope for better managing runoff to minimize ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A farm field tile outlet. Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Creeks are protected waterways in Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Underground drainage tiling apparently ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Drainage water management, a relatively new technology that can reduce negative water quality effects of drainage, as well as help maintain or increase crop yields, will be ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Fish in the Gulf of Mexico might one day owe their lives to researchers at the University of Illinois, who are testing devices that can break down nitrates in drainage from farm ...

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 ...

In many areas, the words “drainage” and “tile” are synonymous. But for farmers such as Leon Wendte—a retired soil conservationist who farms with his brother Roy in south-central Illinois near Altamont ...

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,” ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Fish in the Gulf of Mexico might one day owe their lives to researchers at the University of Illinois, who are testing devices that can break down nitrates in drainage from farm ...