Farmers with sandy soil are seeing the benefits of a new membrane technology developed at Michigan State University which keeps water and nutrients closer to the root zone.
Steve Law with SWRT Solutions, or Soil Water Retention Technology, tells Brownfield this is the first growing season commercially installed membranes have been in production. He says they help keeps inputs where they are needed and, “Saves up to half of the irrigation water that might normally be applied, and for dryland farmers, it gives them the opportunity to get much more use from their water that might normally percolate through their root zone and be lost,” Law explains.
