Prepared by: Dr. Katie Dentzman, Iowa State University; Ryan Arch, Illinois LICA; Keegan Kult, ADMC; and Tom Christensen, Ecosystem Services Exchange The Conservation Drainage Network conducted a survey of agricultural Read more about Drainage Contractor’s Perspective on Barriers to Conservation Drainage Adoption Report[…]
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[…]
Do you know what’s below the ground? It’s a simple question, but many excavators are not aware that buried beneath the ground is an extensive network of millions of miles Read more about Call 811 Before You Dig[…]
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[…]
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.
Director’s Desk Mother nature has not cooperated for what seems like years on end now. The wet fall shutdown most fieldwork following harvest, leaving contractors and farmers hoping for a Read more about May Newsletter[…]