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PIGEON FALLS – Draining water from fields through a tiling system is nothing new. It dates back to the early 1800’s when Scottish farms used tiles to drain otherwise unproductive farmland. Drain tiles started appearing on U.S. farms as early as the 1820’s when the goal was simply to get rid of excess water to allow crops to grow better. During a recent virtual Discovery Farms conference, Tim Radatz, Minnesota’s Discovery Farms coordinator who also specializes in making tile systems work told the 150 participants, “Now in the twenty-first century the concern is more about water quality issues and what actually drains through those tiles.”
UW Discovery Farms virtual conference helps farmers with soil solutions Gloria Hafemeister, Correspondent PIGEON FALLS, Wis. – Extreme weather conditions are becoming more of an expected norm in our weather forecasts. University of Wisconsin Discovery Farms' edge-of-field monitoring stations are continuously capturing new data from extreme rainfall to less memorable precipitation events. During the second of a series of virtual Discovery Farms meetings, co-director of the Discovery Farms Program Amber Radatz shared what has been discovered through these monitoring stations. She was joined by Wisconsin dairy grazier Rick Adamski and Minnesota crop farmer Brock Olson, both of whom shared what they have learned through some of their on-farm experiments.