The Water Table

#100 | On the Road at ISU! Talking Past, Present & Future of Ag Water Management


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It’s a milestone episode for the Water Table Podcast! Episode 100!! We are on the road at Iowa State University with a panel of expert guests to talk past, present and future of agricultural water management. Jamie is joined by a professor, a farmer and a drainage contractor to talk shop. Learn why they believe the future of ag water management is so exciting and what new technologies are on the horizon. It’s a special episode you won’t want to miss!

Chapters:
00:00   Welcome to the Water Table Podcast
00:31   Meet our guests
02:06   The future of water quality
03:55   Drainage water recycling
06:00   City cousins – what technology?
07:00   How to explain it all…
08:45   The biggest hurdles
09:30   3 ½ years for approval
10:45   Frustrations…
11:45   Leaps in technologies
12:45   It’s a young industry
14:00   A right to manage your water
16:30   What’s new?
17:00   Micro wetlands
19:53   Resiliency in water management
22:00   Seeing results
24:43   Slowing down the water
26:00   Progression from introduction to implementation
27:00   ACPF
28:20   We’re not plugging the tile lines…
30:28   A huge network
34:00   Adding to existing systems…(Jacob’s soapbox)
37:20   Audience questions…
39:00   Not a cookie-cutter process
41:12   Batch and build
43:30   Efficiencies
46:20   The next decade???
48:00   A long time to get dry…
50:56   Capturing the opportunities
52:10   The last word.

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  • Hands-On Tiling & Excavating
  • Blair Farm, LLC
  • Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework

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The Water TableBy Jamie Duininck