Benefits of Tile Drainage

Drainage Improves:

  • Planting and harvest conditions
  • Nitrogen use efficiency
  • Soil health practices
  • Yield
  • Profitability/land value

Drainage Decreases:

  • Surface runoff
  • Fuel needed
  • Nitrous Oxide emissions
  • Risk

Drainage Basics

  • Need for drainage
  • Benefits (with salinity)
  • Installation guides
  • Influence of Soil Types
  • Main sizing
    • Size for the future
  • Drainage coefficients
  • Watershed drainage projects
  • Drainage impacts on flooding
  • Drainage and risk reduction