"Nitrate Neutralizer" by Liz Morrison, Corn and Soybean Digest
- Wood chips remove nitrates in drainage water-
Click here to read the article.
ACWA to install Bioreators in Raccoon River Watershed
The project is being conducted in collaboration with ACWA’s farming partners and an emerging partnership with USDA, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Agri Drain and the Ag Drainage Management Coalition.
Click here to read about the project.
Bioreactor in Iowa
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"Big Yield Increases in Corn and Beans Coming" by Tom McGraw
"...Before we get too excited, I’ve got a couple of old bromides
you might want to consider. “More horses take more hay.”
More bushels will require more inputs.
X number of bushels of anything takes X
number of pounds of P and K. Twice the
number of bushels takes twice the number
of pounds of P and K. “There is no free lunch.”
With increased potential in the seed, there
has to be a corresponding increase in
agronomy management to realize that
potential. Water management (variable rate
irrigation, drainage, subsurface irrigation, water
table control, better water retention though
managing and/or alleviating compaction) will need to be
improved. There are huge chunks of the Corn Belt that are very
inadequately drained. Farmers should take the windfall
commodity prices and invest some significant dollars in
increasing the productivity of the land through drainage. They
ought to do that no matter the price of corn. Fertilization, tillage,
everything needs to rise with the rise in seed technology.
Precision ag looks all the more enticing the higher the stakes...."
Click here to read the entire article from Tom McGraw's agronomic newsletter.
by Janet Kubat Willette, Agri News staff writer
"...allows farmers to get in their fields earlier and increases land productivity..."
Click here to read the entire article. Drainage Water Management for the Midwest
"Questions and Answers...."
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"Up and Running" by Leonard Binstock, Executive Director of ADMC
"...the ability to manage water for plant production will move agriculture to the next level of yields..."
Click here to read the entire article published in Drainage Contractor, 2008.
Drainage Water Management picture of a Minnesota site.