It’s a conversation with a legend in this episode of The Water Table Podcast. Jamie is joined by Merv Hilpipre, who reminisces about his long career in auctioneering, his sled-dog racing days, why he always wore a tux to an auction, and more. You don’t want to miss this episode of The Water Table... On the Road at the Iowa LICA Farm.

Chapters & Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   On the road at the Iowa LICA Farm
00:51   Welcome Merv Hilpipre
01:50   110 years of family auctioneering
02:18   A career at five years old
03:50   Lazy French people
04:50   German prisoners of war
05:30   All in the family
06:30   50th time’s a charm
07:15   The biggest auctions
08:32   Selling on horseback
09:00   Nothing runs like a Deere…
09:45   A sharp-dressed man
10:15   A thousand caterpillars, the queen’s car and more
11:30   St. Jude
12:40   And then there were sled dogs
14:30   Hall of Famer and World Record Holder
15:45   All the Memories

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Jamie has some special guests joining him on this episode of The Water Table Podcast. College students Harris and Griffin Duininck sit down to talk about their summer job – a road trip to find out about resiliency in the water management industry. The guys were all over the map and learned some valuable lessons about why their generation should care about plastic pipe and what it might mean for the future – in agriculture and beyond.

Chapters:
00:00   Intro
00:32   Coming up today
01:15   Road Trip to Resiliency
01:45   A bunch of driving and one flight
02:39   There IS good plastic…
04:00   A second life
05:40   A new appreciation for the “why”
07:00   All of the applications
09:00   What is proform?
10:28   Dealing with septic
11:15   Resiliency?
12:30   Joining systems
13:40   What about ag?
15:50   Growing a better crop
16:50   Water can be destructive, but it feeds the world
18:00   All the way to Kansas City
22:00   Name dropping
23:40   Why should young people care?
26:00   All the new stuff

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The Water Table Podcast is on the road at the Iowa LICA Farm, chatting with two people who work for the National LICA organization. What exactly does LICA do and why is it important for contractors to be members? We cover all the benefits (there are a lot…) and talk about how LICA is key for the future of land improvement in this episode with Allison Hack, Director of Communications at the LICA National Office, and Caroline Krug, Assistant to the CEO and Editor of LICA Contractor Magazine.

Chapters & Episode Topics: 
00:00   Intro
00:32   Coming up today…
00:52   On the road at the Iowa LICA Farm
01:00   Assistant CEO or Assistant to the CEO? Meet Allison and Caroline
04:00   LICA – What the heck is it?
04:45   Working with legislators
05:45   A cross section of contractors
06:42   Why be a member?
07:25   Benefits…
09:00   Helping the little guys…and the big guys
09:23   The LICA Contractor magazine
11:15   How do you boost for the next generation?
12:50   Get a new machine!
13:30   Get some training!
15:00   Give us the pitch…
18:00   Networking!
19:00   Discounts!
20:00   Travel!
21:30   Everybody loves what they do
22:00   The last word…

On the Road with The Water Table Podcast: 
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Other Episodes recorded LIVE from Iowa LICA: 
https://youtu.be/JuylKhcHWz0
https://youtu.be/L4YGTLekd9g
https://youtu.be/k8P7F0cTMOE
https://youtu.be/fjbh3JtTKPg
https://youtu.be/KtRup7_qNko

LICA National: 
https://www.licanational.com/

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https://www.ialica.com/

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We’re On the Road at the Iowa LICA Farm Field Days. In this episode, Jamie sits down with safety expert, Josh Snyder, to get the dirt on digging in the dirt, and why safety is such serious business. What should you do in a trench collapse? What are best practices for working in confined spaces? It’s an episode that could save your life.

Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   Welcome to the Iowa LICA Farm
00:52   Meet Josh Snyder, Safety Expert
01:27   Contractor Solutions
02:30   What is shoring?
04:20   Avoiding a tragedy
06:15   Dirt is heavy, man!
07:30   Regulations for a reason
08:40   Trench box
10:35   Confined spaces – how to handle
11:30   Walking through a ladder
12:30   Getting schooled
15:40   A punch in the gut
16:30   What should you do in a collapse?
17:20   Don’t move the hard hat
17:40   What happens when something bad happens?
19:00   What if you’re in the trench?
20:00   All of the Midwest…

More episodes recorded LIVE from Iowa LICA: 

• #85: On the Road... Setting the Next Generation Up for Success: One Man’s Quest to Train Equipment Operators
• #84: On the Road... Moving Earth– Getting All the Dirt at the Iowa LICA Farm!
• #83: On the Road... Saturated Buffers– Stepping up to the Plate
• #82: On the Road... Getting #%@$ done in Iowa with Batch and Build

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This episode of The Water Table Podcast is On the Road  at the Iowa LICA Farm Field Days where we caught up with Roger Solberg, who's using a heavy equipment simulator to train the next generation of operators. It’s a stimulating conversation about simulation… learn why it’s key to the agricultural water management industry and related fields.

Chapters & Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   Welcome to Iowa LICA Field Days
00:52   Hello to Roger Solberg
01:00   It’s just simulating
02:20   Appreciate the equipment
03:00   Working with students
04:00   Preparation is key
05:00   It all costs money
05:40   The why behind the guy
07:45   How do we get kids on board
08:42   You’ll use it and never lose it
09:48   A happy medium
11:00   Living with uncertainty
12:30   What it’s all about
14:20   Who will fill our shoes?

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• Equipment Operator Training, LLC
• On the Road with The Water Table Podcast
• Iowa LICA

More episodes recorded LIVE from Iowa LICA: 

• #84: On the Road... Moving Earth– Getting All the Dirt at the Iowa LICA Farm!
• #83: Saturated Buffers– Stepping up to the Plate
• #82: Getting #%@$ done in Iowa with Batch and Build

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The farm crisis literally moved the earth for one Iowa man. We're getting all the dirt, literally, on this episode recorded live from the Iowa LICA Farm for Farm Field Days. Hear the farm's backstory, contractor Bruce Kleven's connection to LICA, and why we’re at the beginning of the bell curve for changing conservation practices in agricultural water management.

Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   On the road at the Iowa LICA Field Days
00:51   Welcome to Bruce Barnhart
01:29   Why Bruce moves the earth
03:46   Diversified with a passion
05:00   A family affair
06:30   Iowa LICA – Why?
07:20   Delegate and elevate
08:30   How it all started
10:00   That’s quite a list
11:45   Current and future
12:50   For the greater good
13:30   The beginning of the bell curve
15:00   What’s next?
17:20   From 2003 to today
20:30   Our city cousins
22:05   Water quality: a hot topic
24:00   Climate change and technology

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Other Episodes recorded LIVE from Iowa LICA:
#83: Saturated Buffers– Stepping up to the Plate
#82: Getting #%@$ done in Iowa with Batch and Build

Iowa LICA:
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Saturated buffers– do they really work!? How are researchers working with the boots on the ground to figure things out? Or is it all just a big guessing game? Guest host Trey Allis catches up with Dr. Matt Helmers and Charlie Schafer to answer these questions and more in this episode of the The Water Table Podcast on the road at the Iowa LICA Farm.

Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   Coming up on The Water Table…
00:52   Welcome Matt and Charlie
04:00   Saturated buffers – what the heck are they?
06:00   What led to the invention…
07:30   It’s about economics and weather
08:30   Partnerships; they’re the jam.
10:15   Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t
11:30   Rural economic development
14:20   Going down the drain
15:00   Growing interest from contractors
15:40   Saturated buffers explained
16:50   Show me the money
17:50   Let’s get ‘er done
19:00   Don’t be stupid; make a plan!
22:00   But is it effective?
23:30   Transforming drainage
26:30   What’s next
30:00   We’re here to help
31:00   The last word

Related content:
Iowa Learning Farms
Conservation Drainage Network
Industry Best Practice: Saturated Buffer
How 5 Million Dollars, 39 Test Sites and 29 Bright Minds are Transforming Drainage

More episodes with Charlie Schafer & Dr. Matt Helmers:
#1: A Case for Water Management
#13: Advocacy and Water Management Practices

About the guests:
Charlie Schafer is the president and owner of Agri Drain Corporation, which he founded with his brothers in 1976. He has served on multiple boards associated with water management and is currently the Vice Chair for the National Land Improvement Contractors of America (LICA) Board and the Chairman of the Board for the Agriculture Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC). Charlie is also the founder and CEO of Ecosystem Services Exchange (ESE). He was inducted into the International Drainage Hall of Fame in 2022.

Dr. Matt Helmers is the Director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center, the Dean’s Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University, where he has been on the faculty since 2003. Dr. Helmers’ research areas include studies on the impact of nutrient management, cropping practices, drainage design and management, and strategic placement of buffer systems on nutrient export from agricultural landscapes.

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We are on the road in this episode of The Water Table Podcast. We stopped in at the Iowa LICA Farm Field Days to catch up on all the latest and greatest in water management. Iowa leads the country in production of corn, eggs, pork, ethanol and red meat. Find out why they also lead in building saturated buffers and bioreactors. It’s all about partnerships and their push for Batch and Build projects.

00:00   Intro
00:32   Welcome to the LICA Farm
00:51   On location…
01:35   Batch and Build
02:40   Voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy
03:45   Why does Iowa lead?
05:50   Who says Iowa is flat?
06:15   A tale of two rivers
09:27   Batch and Build 2.0
12:40   There are really cool people in conservation
14:17   What is a saturated buffer?
16:20   What is a bioreactor?
17:40   Plastic-yes or no?
20:00   Show me the results.
23:30   Spiders, raccoons and snakes, oh my!
24:30   Let’s get the word out and partner!
26:00   Getting #%@$ done.
28:00   Anyone can lead a batch
31:40   Partner, partner, partner
32:44   Everybody needs to do something.
37:40   There’s a different flavor for everyone.
38:30   The last word

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Episode #56: A More Efficient Approach to Water Quality– Batch & Build
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It’s a Water Table takeover on this week’s episode of The Water Table Podcast. Kristine Fladeboe Duininck kicked her husband, Jamie, out of the host’s chair and invited Kitty Rodelius to join her. Kitty just happens to be married to Kent Rodelius, a water management expert who has worked for Prinsco for more than 40 years. Find out what it’s been like for these ladies to be married to people who are passionate about drainage…let’s just say it has made for some interesting vacations.

About the Guests:
Kristine Fladeboe Duininck is a world-class auctioneer and farmland specialist. With 20+ years of broker experience, Kristine is owner of Fladeboe Land. Fladeboe Land is a second-generation family owned business specializing in farmland. She is married to The Water Table Podcast Host, Jamie Duininck.

Kitty Rodelius has been the Chief Operating Officer for the Rodelius household for 46 years. She taught high school before staying home to raise her two daughters and has been an active volunteer in both her church and her community. Kitty is married to Kent Rodelius, Prinsco’s Ag Market Relationship Manager.

Chapters & Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
01:00   Welcome to Kristine and Kitty
02:15   Deep in the water
03:00   Off the top
04:20   Driving Mr. Duininck
05:45   From customers to friends
08:37   A rhubarb cake to save the day
09:45   Married to drainage
14:27   “Dad’s on the phone” song
16:20   Three blind mice
17:51   Driving Mr. Rodelius
21:00   Kitty’s theatrical career
24:00   Closing down the store
26:30   It’s the friendship
28:50   Why so much passion?
30:25   Family businesses – generations and generations
32:45   The ripple effect
35:40   Tile in the ground to water management
37:45   Advice from Kitty to Kristine

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In this episode of The Water Table, Jamie and Tom Christensen discuss the importance of public and private partnerships in agricultural water management and the importance of investing in drainage management practices. From cost-sharing to education to removing barriers, it’s a wealth of information that every crop producer should hear!

About the Guest:
Tom Christensen is the chair of the Conservation Drainage Network’s Growth Committee. He also works with Ecosystem Services Exchange and spent 40 years with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) before retiring from the USDA in 2020. Tom spent 24 years in Washington, DC in a variety of positions in policy, program development and implementation, agency and mission area operations and partnership building. He also served as NRCS’s Regional Conservationist for the Central U.S. and prior to that was the NRCS State Conservationist for the state of Illinois.

Suggested Links:
USDA NRCS
Conservation Drainage Network
Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship

Chapters & Episode Topics:
00:00   Intro
00:32   Coming up on today’s episode…
01:00   Welcome to Tom Christensen
02:00   What is conservation drainage?
03:00   CDN – how it all works
04:00   A public-private partnership that really works
05:30   A Growth Committee??
06:30   Adoption barriers
08:30   Cost sharing – yes or no?
10:30   Why is it so cumbersome?
11:30   Out of sight, out of mind
12:15   Oh, the innovation of automation
13:40   The role of the government
14:30   The Turnkey Project
16:00   Future opportunities
18:30   We need education and awareness
21:30   Proper drainage – the benefits are significant
22:50   The last word…

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