Tile drainage

[Oliver88]

Last we had done was just under $1/ft for 4" installed and I think about $1.25 for 6". About 1/3 of our land is tiled, go south of us on flatter heavier ground and it gets near 100%. Lots of guys that had been on 50 or 60' centres going back in and splitting the centres

Let's use 50' centres and 6" for cost example.
52 tile runs x 2640 feet x $1.25 = $171,600 per quarter section or $1072/acre.
1500 acres = $1.6 million

Cost is a big reason why tile drainage hasn't been used too much on the prairies yet.
Now there may be too many approval issues and restrictions as well?

For 500 acre corn/soybean farmers in Iowa with flat $8,000 acre land this would be a lot more feasible.

[Klause]

We layed about 900 feet of tile last fall to connect some sloughs. Hate surface ditches that everyone loves around here. Hard on equipment harder on operator.


Just connecting sloughs to the c and d ditch. No more sloughs and the crop came right up in the old pothole.

[Oliver88]

Sounds interesting Klause.

What was the cost to have that project completed?

[Rareearth]

How did you do your inlets Klause?