Division of Extension
Minimizing the risk of contamination through your irrigation systems is part of delivering a quality product. In this webinar, Kristin Krokowski shares about the importance of water quality, inspecting your irrigation system and the choices you can make on your farm to minimize risk whether or not you are subject to the FSMA produce safety rule.
Understand how to use soil and plant water use data to set up simple irrigation schedules for a system. In this webinar, Dr. Mallika Nocco (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Agrohydrology) discusses how to use plant available water content and crop evapotranspiration to build schedules for irrigation management.
Understanding how water moves, stores, and is available for plant uptake in the soil is one of the first steps in crop water management. In this webinar, Dr. Izze Mcnamee (Extension Water Quality Specialist) discusses how to determine plant available water, monitor soil moisture, and apply these approaches in everyday irrigation management.
From drip tape and wobblers to hardening-off misters and seedling flood tables, irrigation design is always a custom job. So how do you (re)design your own? Join Tom Bryan for stories of success, regrets, and automation for 1-5 acre vegetable irrigation systems. Tom discusses his most recent farm project’s irrigation design, decisions he regrets, and […]
Guest host Guolong Liang, outreach specialist for the Agriculture Water Quality Program of Extension in the Central Sands of Wisconsin, talks with UW-Madison Horticulture Professor and Extension Specialist Jed Colquhoun, John Ruzicka of Guth Farms in Bancroft, Wisconsin and Dylan Moore, a Seneca Foods Field Representative, about the use of cover crops and no-till to reduce nutrient runoff in canning and processing vegetables.
