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 Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land, with Wood, Stones, Ploughs, and Open Ditches, and especially with Tiles; including Tables of Raintall ...

Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into waterways from farm drainage systems. Their method combines a woodchip ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands -- from southwest Minnesota to across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio -- are the biggest contributors of nitrogen runoff into ...

Harmful algal bloom caused by nutrient pollution, Assateague island National Seashore, MD. Eric Vance, U.S. EPA/Flickr Beneath fields of corn and soybeans across the U.S. Midwest lies an unseen ...

It might be time to take a fresh look at farm drainage systems. Two studies conducted by Farm Journal indicate managing the water table can pay off in higher yields. Water table management is a new ...

Corn grows during only five months of the year, and drainage is essential to its growth. The other seven months while cornfields are empty, water and nutrients continue to drain away from farms.

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What options, if any, are there to depreciate farm land drainage tile? Answer: Merrill - Thank you for your question. My answer gives general information based on what you have provided. As you review ...

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, ...