It’s another edition of The Water Table on the road. In this episode, guest host Karl Guetter catches up with Dr. Matt Helmers from Iowa State University at the NACADE convention in Des Moines, Iowa, to talk drainage recycling, rain barrels on steroids and how hanging out with Grandpa launched a career.

About the Guest:
Dr. Matt Helmers is Director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center, the Dean’s Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University, where he has been on the faculty since 2003. Dr. Helmers’s research areas include studies on the impact of nutrient management, cropping practices, drainage design and management, and strategic placement of buffer systems on nutrient export from agricultural landscapes.

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Episode Topics:
00:32 Welcome
02:25 NACADE Convention
03:05 Why nutrient research?
03:50 Hanging out with Grandpa.
05:00 Memorable research
05:30 The timing of manure application – a huge benefit
06:45 Working with agronomy on split application
07:30 Switching to drainage research
09:00 Current projects
09:50 Drainage water recycling – a rain barrel on steroids
12:00 Land prices, you can’t afford a dry year
13:20 Saturated buffer projects
14:25 A huge size and scope
15:56 Batch and build
16:55 Looking into the crystal ball
18:40 Contractor education
22:00 The weirdos in the industry

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