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 ...

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 ...

Creeks are protected waterways in Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed ...

Experts say that the majority of the state's field have a drain tile system to help remove soil moisture, but it can come at ...

Kim Gorans, center, president of Gorans Brothers Farms, his cropping manager, Nick Bjornberg, right, and Gorans' neighbor, Allan Bjornberg, were among those bringing insight to the data and ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- All right, so you're installing tile drainage to improve yields on your farm. Now you might want to think about adding tools for drainage water management, said Gary Sands, an ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio is often beset by bouts of wet, chilly spring weather around the start of the growing season, leaving too much water in the field, which can delay getting soybeans and ...

CLARKSBURG — At Many Forks Farm, every new year seemed to bring more water. Now, with $4,070 of grant funding in hand, the River Road vegetable and herb grower will embark on a project that aims to ...

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 ...

For nearly 160 years, generations of the Isley family have cultivated the fertile soil of Lenawee County, about 25 miles from the shores of western Lake Erie in the River Raisin Watershed. And now ...

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,” ...