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Brian Carlson grew up familiar with Iowa agriculture as his father and grandfather farmed in Benton County.

Carlson, who farms corn and soybeans just south of Garrison, remembers his grandfather digging up parts of the family’s fields to site tile and remembers his dad installing tile himself when Carlson was young.

Tiling is an agricultural practice that involves installing a network of pipes underground to help remove excess water from the soil and improve field drainage.

Since he started farming in 1988, Carlson has been adding drainage tile to his own farmland, too.

“As I was able to buy a little bit of ground and had the financial ability, I tried to put in tile as often and as quickly

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