Produced with contributions by John McMaine , former Griffith Endowed Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Water Management Engineer.
How can farmers benefit from conservation drainage? Conservation drainage includes practices such as bioreactors, saturated buffers, wetlands and more.
In this week’s episode, John McMaine and Anthony Bly introduce and discuss conservation drainage with the help of Dr. Chris Hay, a research scientist with the Iowa Soybean Association, and Dr. Jeppe Kjaersgaard, a research scientist with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
Listen to learn about:
- What conservation drainage really is.
- Why conservation drainage is useful and important.
- Different conservation drainage practices.
- Barriers stopping the implementation of these practices.
- Drivers that make these practices so beneficial.
- Why these practices are not a one-size-fits-all.
