Recent News - 2015

posted 12/31/2015 Don't miss the Drainage Water Management training and Technical Service Provider certification orientation February 3-4, 2016 at the Holiday Inn Airport, Des Moines, IA!

posted 12/18/2015 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Northey, was in Breda on Wednesday to urge local farmers to take advantage of funding for conservation and water quality practices through the Elk Run Watershed Water Quality Improvement Project.

posted 12/16/2015 "Nitrate management in tile water is a big reason why this water control structure has slowly gained a foothold in the Corn Belt, but its potential for providing timely water to corn and soybeans may spell the future for this underground tile water management tool. Some see the day when hundreds of thousands of acres of tile-drained land will use smart drainage systems to supply water as well as drain it away."

posted 12/7/2015 Check out this article in CropLife Magazine to get Agri Drain president, Charlie Schafer's, opinion on the future of drainage water management!

posted 12/4/2015 A large soil project aims to cleanse nutrient-impacted creek water from Williams Creek in Cape Girardeau, Missouri by pumping it onto fields with a subsurface drainage and irrigation system that directs the water to a denitrification bioreactor, and then returning the cleansed water to the creek. Click on the image below for the full story.