The director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center is excited about the potential of drainage water recycling.
Matt Helmers says researchers in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and North Dakota are looking at ways to capture and reuse water, like a rain barrel, but on a much larger scale.
“What we’re doing is working to capture rainwater, whether that be some surface runoff or maybe more so drainage water, capturing (and) storing that, and having that available for supplemental irrigation for the corn or soybean crop.”
He calls drainage water recycling an “emerging practice.”
“I’m an engineer, and from an engineering standpoint I think we can engineer this.
