Drain Tile: Friend or Foe?

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We explore the benefits and downsides of drain tile with Rodney Rulon, an Indiana farmer, and Matt Helmers, the director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University. Drain tiles dry out and warm up fields, boost productivity, and extend growing seasons, which can make them important economically. But they can also have negative effects on water quality. Zach and Mitchell talk with their guests about how to offset some of those negative effects within the farm’s system.

Resources:

Drainage Water Quality Impacts Study

Study looking at impacts of nitrogen application timing and cover crop inclusion on subsurface drainage water quality

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills.
0:08.6	General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative egg practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030.
0:19.0	Zach and I have the easy job, really.
0:20.9	That's true.
0:21.8	We just sit and talk about farming and stuff.
0:24.6	Dirt.
0:25.8	Soil.
0:26.3	Soil.
0:26.9	Soil.
0:27.7	Sorry.
0:29.1	It's not dirt.
0:30.4	Plenty of it's still dirt, though, I think.
0:32.1	Trying to make it soil.
0:33.8	That's right.
0:34.4	That's a good point.
0:35.3	There's a lot of dirt.
0:36.1	That's a good point.
0:45.3	Music That's right. That's a good point. There's a lot of dirt. That's a good point. I'm Zach Johnson.
0:46.5	I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:47.4	And this is the fieldwork.
0:49.3	And this is the field.
0:50.8	All right, we'll try that again.
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