General Contractor in Concordia, MO

The ground around Concordia is productive, and wet ground is the problem that keeps it from producing more. Fields that hold water drain later in the spring, cost growing days and make the ground hard to get equipment onto when you need to. We install field tile and plan drainage to move that water off the field and to an outlet so the ground dries sooner, drains more evenly and is ready to work when the season turns. It is work best planned ahead of planting, and we schedule it that way so the tile goes in when the ground can take it and the crop calendar is not waiting on us.

A drainage plan is not just laying pipe. We read the lay of the ground, find the natural low spots where water collects, and lay out tile lines and an outlet that move it off the field the way the ground already wants to drain. Done right, field tile keeps working for years and pays back in yield and access every season. Done wrong, it moves water partway and leaves the rest to pool, which is worse than no tile at all because you have spent the money and still have the wet spot. We plan it for the whole field, not just the part you can see standing in water today.

On the building side, agricultural post frame gives you the wide open spans that farm buildings actually need, without interior columns in the way of the equipment, the stock or the workflow. Equipment storage, machinery barns, livestock buildings, hay and feed storage, post frame handles the clear span and goes up efficiently on rural ground. We size the building for what you are storing or doing inside and plan the doors and openings for how equipment actually moves in and out, because a door that lands in the wrong place on a working farm is a problem you live with for decades.

The advantage of one contractor doing both the drainage and the building is that they get planned for the same ground at the same time. A shop or a barn sited on ground that was never drained will fight water from the first rain, and field tile run without a thought for where the building will stand can end up in the way of the slab. When the same contractor owns the whole site, the building goes on ground that is already graded and the drainage runs where it belongs relative to the building, so neither one has to be redone because the other was planned first. One schedule, one point of contact, and the work fits together instead of being two separate jobs that hope to line up.

Missouri law requires a utility locate through Missouri 811 before any digging for tile lines, and we build that into the schedule. The ground does not wait, and neither should the drainage, so we plan the locate, the tile and the outlet as one sequence and keep the job moving.