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.

Improving farm drainage tiles in Illinois can be very challenging because most farmland is owned by absentee landowners ...

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AMENIA, N.D. - He's installed subsurface tile drainage on about 650 of his family's 6,500-acre farm, but Rodney Nelson says he thinks it should all be tiled. Rodney, 54, and his son, Bradley, 27, ...

Farm drainage is a relatively straightforward process. Farmers bury a series of underground tile lines in their fields with the tile emptying into the open ditches that people are accustomed to seeing ...

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Join the 28,000 people who count on Daily Digger for local news. Delivered Monday-Saturday mornings. The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has filed a final update to farm water quality rules ...

Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into ...

A proposed improvement to a large drainage ditch system near Mapleton has the Department of Natural Resources, conservation groups and downriver communities calling for changes in the project, ...