The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) recently requested public input on how the NRCS should implement funding that will be received under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Agricultural Drainage Read more about ADMC responds to the NRCS request for public input on how to spend Inflation Reduction Act funds[…]
ADMC members had a big presence at the 11th International Drainage Symposium, but none bigger than Charlie Schafer, Chairman of the ADMC Board and President of Agri Drain Corp, who Read more about ADMC Co-founder Charlie Schafer Inducted into the International Drainage Hall of Fame[…]
ADMC Welcomes New Members AMDC welcomes in and thanks the Drain Tile Safety Coalition and Hands On Tiling & Excavating LLC as new members in the Spring of 2022. ADMC Read more about ADMC Spring 2022 Update[…]
AMES, Iowa – Iowa Learning Farms, in partnership with Heartland Cooperative, and Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition, is hosting a farmer and landowner workshop on Wednesday, January 19 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Read more about Bioreactor and Saturated Buffer Workshop to be held January 19 near Slater, IA[…]
Conservation drainage practices, applied in a conservation systems approach, offer great promise to improve environmental performance and farm economic viability on artificially-drained cropland. However, despite their benefits, producers are not adopting Read more about ADMC is working with the Conservation Drainage Network to gain insights from drainage contractors[…]
The ADMC annual meeting, hosted by ISG Inc., was held in Bloomington, MN. on Wednesday October 27th. It was great to be able to meet in person and I do Read more about Reflections from the 2021 ADMC Annual Meeting[…]
The Polk County Saturated Buffer Project formed a SWCD-County-IDALS-NRCS-ADMC partnership and created a new framework to remove barriers to adoption in order to install saturated buffers and bioreactors at a Read more about The Iowa Polk County Saturated Buffer Project is accepting construction bids[…]
Drainage water management (DWM) offers great promise to improve environmental performance and farm economic viability on tile-drained cropland. In-field experience and on-farm research have demonstrated crop production and nutrient loading Read more about ADMC Agriculture Innovation Agenda Submission[…]
Reflecting on 2020, as strange as it was, it was also a successful year for the Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition. Membership support has continued to increase and has allowed ADMC to build valuable relationships and to educate partners throughout the Midwest and Northern Plains.
2020 has been, well 2020. Pandemic news aside, agriculture is dealing with another year of weather extremes. I was in the middle of a covid mandated Zoom call when it was cut short by a derecho event striking central Iowa. Fortunately, we came out only losing a few branches and had power back after 12 hours. However, this weather extreme, damaged an estimated 3.57 million acres of corn and 2.5 million acres of soybeans in Iowa. It also devastated Iowa’s 2nd largest city, Cedar Rapids, and many others. Of course, the derecho was not on anyone’s mind in July, but the drought conditions spreading throughout the Midwest have been.