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Drainage " tile " usage is showing no signs of slowing down or saturation. drainage tile image courtesy of plumbingsniper.com Background: Drainage " tile " refers to corrugated plastic pipe made from High Density Polyethylene ( HDPE ) . It is essential. Without it, seeds would rot and yields would plummet. Drainage is a long term investment. Busines is steady for Advance Drainage Systems, the major player. This article will examine usage trends as well as pros an

land made arable by terracing Terracing and Water Capture: Ancient Agricultural Water Management Water is the lifeblood of agriculture. For thousands of years, civilizations from the Andes to Southeast Asia have contemporaneously captured, conveyed and conserved water effectively. If a hydrologist from 6,000 years ago time travelled to the present, they would say we are beyond the pale irrigating by spraying into the air. So effective that societies sprang up where there w

The Irish potato famine resulted from genetic uniformity, exploitative land tenure, British economic policies, extreme poverty,...

It took millenia to create and about a century to deplete. The Ogallala Water Coordinated Project has a graphic which is a timeline of depletion. The profligate depletion cannot be called Agricultural Water Management. Right of capture and planned depletion ( admittedly " no longer in the best interests..." ) have proven to be short sighted. The vast expanses of crops are artificial. There is no fallback plan when the Ogallalla runs dry. The Ogallala spans eight states,