A “drain tile” refers to a system of perforated pipes laid along the foundation, inside or outside. Also known as French drains or perimeter drains, these system channels water away from the home.

While drainage tiles are not the only way nutrients escape fields — it can happen through surface runoff, too — they have drastically reduced the time it takes for nitrates and phosphorus to ...

Whether you have a French drain, a home drain tile system, or another drainage solution, the water that enters the system can ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Government policies -- one state and one federal -- are starting to make it more difficult to receive drain tile permits in the Red River Valley and the rest of North Dakota.

Even though there wasn’t an excessive amount of rain in 2024, there were days when the soil was saturated, and the tile drainage reduced the stress on the dry beans that typically would have ...

It has to go somewhere. At my house, it filters into foundation drainage tile lines that lie several inches below the basement floor. The tiles drain into the sump-pump reservoir where the water is ...

Minnesota’s farmlands are being drain-tiled at a breakneck pace, prompting an often sharp debate that pits better crop yields against runoff and water-quality concerns. To understand how quickly ...

Counterintuitive as it may seem, farm fields with the best tile drainage systems generally produced the highest yields during last year's drought, area farmers and other experts say. “I saw that ...