Recent News - 2018

posted 12/10/2018 Iowa farmers and landowners are working toward cleaner water flowing from farmland into the Des Moines river by using practices such as bioreactors and saturated buffers.

posted 9/7/2018 The Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC) named Keegan Kult as their new Executive Director.

posted 6/4/2018 “This grant is another great example of leveraging state funding for water quality and bringing in significant federal and private dollars to help get even more practices on the ground,” Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Naig said. “This EPA fund will help build saturated buffers, bioreactors, wetlands and other practices that have been shown to significantly reduce the nutrients leaving our land.”

posted 5/21/2018 For those in the South interested in Drainage Water Management (DWM) systems, the focus is normally on irrigation. But the system — sometimes called subsurface irrigation — also helps with nutrient loss and increased yields.

posted 4/23/2018 With precipitation patterns shifting, producers are looking at options for storing and recycling drainage water—tailwater recovery, controlled drainage, and drainage water recycling. Our own Charlie Schafer weighs in!