Drainage tile, a system farmers use to drain water from croplands, is also a contributor to the historic loss of up to about 100 million acres of wetlands in the U.S., researchers say. This hidden ...

Most drainage pipes are no longer made from clay piping but from polyethylene tubing; the word “tile” or “tiling ... of conveying water away from the field. Farmers who install subsurface ...

Tile drainage originally used short lengths of clay pipes known as tiles ... and no single system works best on every field, said Gary Sands, a University of Minnesota professor and extension ...

contingent on their drainage of the land and use for agriculture. Early versions of these pipes were made of tiles of fired clay (hence the name). Many of those clay pipes are still under fields ...

Field Drainage Inc. is a family operation ... Still called “tiling,” today’s sub-surface drainage is no longer clay “tile,” but instead uses corrugated polyethylene.

Farmers who want to place drain tile under their land would no longer ... head of the East Dakota Water Development District. Clay, Turner, Hamlin, Brown, Kingsbury and Brookings counties have ...

The field day runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Lunch is available for a fee. "Good drainage is vital to crop production," said Jane Frankenberger, Purdue Extension ag ...

farmers can put the sensors into their drainage tile, and then they will know what is the waterflow and what is the nitrate loss from their field,” Dong said. The goal is to put the nitrate ...

By the late 1800s, clay tiles were being mass produced. Drainage tile was embedded into ... and heavy metal loads from an experimental field to an outlet. Other chemicals, like PFAS (also called ...