Saturated Buffer Situations

Produced with contributions by John McMaine , former Griffith Endowed Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Water Management Engineer.

What is a saturated buffer and how can they be beneficial to farmers?

John McMaine and Anthony Bly discuss saturated buffers this week, including:

what they are,
how effective can they treat the water,
the various advantages of installing a saturated buffer and
criteria that needs to be met to be able to install a saturated buffer.

This week’s guest speaker is Jeppe Kjaersgaard with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.

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