The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Brian Carlson grew up familiar with Iowa agriculture as his father and grandfather farmed in Benton ...

Glacier FarmMedia – In 2013, Rick Rutherford installed tile drainage in part of a field prone to soil salinity. Today, many more producers in Manitoba have turned to tile drainage in an effort to ...

Straw’s tile mill, located on what is now Fairground Drive between Williams and German streets in Paulding, was Paulding County’s first tile mill in 1876. W.F. Straw soon expanded into brick as well ...

When heavy rains result in ponded fields, the cause is poor drainage. Old field tiles in poor condition and/or undersized cannot efficiently remove excess water fast enough. When left unaddressed, the ...

HAVANA, Ill. - Farm drain tiles are vitally crucial to the success of Illinois crop production. These underground drainage systems help provide good soil-based crop growing conditions by removing ...

URBANA, Ill. – Tile drainage is a common practice used in agricultural fields to remove excess water, but it also transports harmful nutrients into water bodies, contributing to algal blooms that ...

A ag educator says farmers can benefit from knowing more about drain tile, and the location of older systems installed on their farms. Kevin Erb with the University of Wisconsin Extension tells ...

Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot that can detect nitrates and monitor the condition of drainage tiles to help farmers better ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screenshot from Iowa Learning Farms) Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with ...

Researchers from Iowa State University have partnered with Michigan State University to develop a robot that would detect nitrates and monitor tile health to help farmers keep their land productive.