Meeting April 3-4, 2024, Westerville, OH
Field Tour April 5, 2024
Theme: Partnerships for implementing conservation drainage on the ground
Targeted Outcomes:
- Raise awareness of the importance of agricultural water management to farm profitability, local, regional, and national initiatives to advance soil health, water quality, watershed restoration, risk reduction and climate resiliency goals.
- Strengthen understanding of drivers for practice implementation and identify impediments to conservation drainage practice adoption.
- Prioritize information needs (i.e., research gaps) to address risks.
- Understand how to advance conservation drainage as an integral component of managing food production, regenerative agriculture, and terrestrial water supplies under changing climate conditions.
- Advance conservation drainage implementation.
| Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
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| Opening Session Recording |
| NRCS Support for Conservation Drainage Practices (Kasey Taylor, Regional Conservationist, Northeast Region, NRCS) Partnerships in Conservation Drainage, Industry Perspective (Darla Huff, Director of Agriculture, Advanced Drainage Systems) Ohio’s Approach to Conservation (Kirk Hines, Division Chief, Ohio Department of Agriculture) The H2Ohio Program (Terry Mescher, Ohio Department of Agriculture) CWA Section 319 and IIJA Conservation Drainage Support and Conservation Drainage in PLET (Katie Flahive and Whitney King, US EPA) |
| Afternoon Session Recording |
| Successes in Conservation Drainage Implementation at the State Level (Justin McBride, Ohio Department of Agriculture) Successes in Conservation Drainage Implementation at the Local Level (Theresa Dirksen, Mercer SWCD) Creative Conservation: Maximizing Investments in Water Quality (Hannah Inman, Great Outdoors Foundation) Drainage and Storage – Balancing Production and Protection of Outlets (Chuck Brandel, ISG) Drainage Research in Missouri (Kelly Nelson, University of Missouri) Future Tile Drainage Research and Extension Programs in PA (Tyler Groh, Pennsylvania State University) South Dakota Drainage Update (John McMaine, South Dakota State University) Drainage Update from Indiana (Jane Frankenberger & Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University) How Soil Properties Affect Drainage Water Quality (Xinhua Jia, North Dakota State University) Drainage Research and Extension in Minnesota (Lindsay Pease, University of Minnesota) |
| Tuesday, April 4, 2024 |
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| Morning Session Recording |
| Conservation Drainage and Climate-Smart Agriculture Recording (Jane Frankenberger, Purdue University; Steven Hall, University of Wisconsin ; Laura Christianson, University of Minnesota ; Lauren Breza, USDA-ARS Corvallis, Oregon; Tyler Groh, Penn State University) Conservation Drainage Perspectives (Brian Baldridge, Director, Ohio Department of Agriculture; Scott Barbour, President, Advanced Drainage Systems; Gary Pierzynski, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Director of OARDC, The Ohio State University) Practical Considerations of Conservation Drainage Implementation from Drainage Practitioner Perspectives (Paul Pullins, Pullins Drainage and Excavating; Ben Reinhart, Ecosystems Services Exchange; Mel Luymes, Land Improvement Contractors of Ontario; Theodore “Quint” Shambaugh, Pinion) Introduction to North American Conservation and Drainage Expo (Justin Brown, Mid America Trenchers LLC) |
| Afternoon Session, Part 1 Recording |
| Transport of Legacy Phosphorus (Mark Williams and Will Osterholz, USDA-ARS) Actions to Address Legacy Phosphorus (Nathan Stoltzfus and Mike Brooker, The Ohio State University) |
| Afternoon Session, Part 2 Recording |
| Drainage Updates from Iowa (Matt Helmers, Iowa State University) Drainage research in Oregon (Abigail Tomasek, Oregon State University) Michigan Drainage Report (Ehsan Ghane, Michigan State University) Conservation Drainage in Ohio (Vinayak Shedekar, The Ohio State University) USDA ARS LTAR Drainage Working Group Update (Mark Williams, USDA-ARS) Accelerating the Adoption of Saturated Buffers Using an Educational Decision-Support Tool (Ehsan Ghane, Michigan State University) Water Quality Impacts of Drainage Water Recycling in Iowa (Chris Hay, Christopher Hay Consulting) Automated Drainage Water Management – Lessons Learned from Ohio Case Studies (Vinayak Shedekar, The Ohio State University) Impact of Controlled Drainage on Nutrient Loadings at Field-to Watershed Scales in the Western Lake Erie Basin, USA (Asmita Murumkar, The Ohio State University) Two Years of a Stacked N Bioreactor and P Removal Structure in Central OH (Chad Penn, USDA-ARS ) Effectiveness of SWAT Simulating Drainage Water Management using Edge-of-field Data in OH (Sushant Mehan, South Dakota State University) Moving Conservation Drainage Forward: Committee Reports and Next Steps |
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