an engineer with University of Minnesota Extension. Agricultural drainage means using surface ditches or subsurface permeable pipes to remove excess water from poorly drained lands. During the late ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. An increased use of agricultural drainage tile is one reason a 2025 deadline to reduce nitrate and ...

Minnesota farm groups are pushing back against calls for tighter oversight of underground drainage tile as environmental advocates warn of nitrate pollution and erosion risks.

WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- For years, conservationists in Minnesota have been concerned about agricultural drainage of Minnesota's farmlands. Miles upon miles of underground tile have been installed ...

AMES, Iowa – Massive networks of drains, pipes and tiles that enable food production on much of the world’s most productive cropland are due for expansion and replacement to meet the demands of ...

Every summer, a "dead zone" forms in the Gulf of Mexico. Plumes of oxygen-robbing algae, fed by excess nitrogen coming in from the Mississippi River, kill off marine life and threaten the livelihoods ...

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 ...

The massive underground infrastructure that allows farmers to cultivate crops on much of the world's most productive land has outlived its design life and should be updated, according to a new study.

North Dakota State University Extension and University of Minnesota Extension will jointly host a drainage water management ...

Siheung City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lim Byungtaek) announced that it will conduct a comprehensive survey on illegal ...

The Blue Earth River is 50 percent wider along its entire length than it was seven decades ago, largely because a generation of artificial drainage on the surrounding landscape has doubled the flow of ...