Thursday May 9 | The Gazette
Traveling for work, fresh produce
My job was to write feature stories about interesting people and places in Eastern Iowa.
Farmers find drainage key to surviving drought
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.
Orlan Love wrote a new blog post: Iowa farms with good drainage systems did well in drought
Despite this summer's drought, farm fields with tile drainage systems tended to produce higher yields.