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FOND DU LAC COUNTY (WLUK) -- Northeast Wisconsin farmers are increasingly installing drain tiles in their fields to mitigate loss from major rainfall and help crops grow deeper. They're called tiles ...

My last house had a basement that leaked water. I’m building a new home and want my basement as dry as the Atacama Desert. I’m confident that my drain tile was not put in correctly at my last house.

Tile drainage in the Mississippi Basin is one of the great advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing highly productive agriculture in what was once land too wet to farm. In fact, installation ...

MUSCOTAH (KSNT) – As water management remains a key issue at the Kansas Statehouse, farmers across the state are taking matters into their own hands. With Kansas’ primary water sources facing ...

BUXTON, N.D. - Thousands of miles of plastic pipe are being buried under farm fields every year in the Red River Valley, as farmers invest in technology to drain fields to get a faster start on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Farmers should be on the lookout for roots and sediment clogging their tile drains this year, a Purdue University soil physics specialist advises. Many of the roots are believed ...

I often think about how blessed I am to have worked on older homes long before I started building new ones. It provides me with a benchmark to judge modern building methods and products. Take the ...

As most kids know, a big pile of mud can be a load of fun. But not for farmers. Muddy fields mean too much water. And too much water means crops might not grow well. Farmers often install underground ...