Sometimes, if a wetland is directly through a field, a farmer can use what is called “non-perf pipe,” which has no holes to allow water in, and therefore will not drain. The farmer can have his tile ...

Excess water from the crop root zone can enter the pipe through the perforations and flow away from the field to a ditch or other outlet. Until the 1970s, most subsurface drainage pipes were made from ...

However, the first 17 minutes of Hefty’s presentation about boosting yields were dedicated to the benefits of tile drainage. The Cypress Farm and Ranch Show will host its inaugural event in ...

Tile drainage is a common agricultural practice used to manage excess water in fields, improving crop yields and soil health. This system involves the installation of perforated pipes below the ...

Tile drainage has been successfully practiced on a wide range of soil textures, from sandy to clayey. You can drain coarser soils (silts and sands) with wider drain spacings, whereas finer soils ...

There are more than six million acres of cropland in Iowa where wetness limits productivity. Slightly more than half of the 375 different soils series mapped in Iowa have problems with excess water.

How much will tile drainage increase soybean yields? Year to year it depends, of course, on how wet your soils are early in the growing season. But a study of 20 years of data from both experimental ...

Water drainage is misunderstood by many homeowners ... The top of the drain tile pipe should be no higher than the top of the concrete footing. This assumes the interior slab of a basement ...