RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS This should be customer driven Cassandra
RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS This should be customer driven “Cassandra” or “The Oracle”
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 1) Expert system/decision support tool for growing season and non-growing season operation guidelines for drainage water management systems for optimizing both agronomic crop production and environmental objectives.
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 2) Treatment technologies and management strategies to remove pollutants from drainage water. (i. e. blind inlet treatment systems, bioreactors, wetlands, cover crops, filter treatment systems, etc. )
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 3) Technology and protocols to validate nutrient trading credits for drainage treatment technologies.
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 4) Confirmation regarding where the water and nutrients (N and P) go when drainage water management is implemented.
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 5) Technologies to map existing subsurface drainage infrastructure.
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 6) User friendly linkage of watershed (i. e. SWAT) and DRAINMOD models.
ARS NP 211 Planning Workshop Needed Research Products (next 5 to 10 years): � 7) Ecological, hydrologic, and economic evaluation of innovative watershed drainage infrastructure, such as two-stage ditches.
Emerging Issues (next 20 years): � 1) Better understanding of climate change impacts on agricultural drainage practices and associated environmental consequences.
Emerging Issues (next 20 years) � 2) Better understanding of climate change on drainage system design criteria.
Emerging Issues (next 20 years) � 3) Rural and urban interface issues.
Emerging Issues (next 20 years) � 4) Role of drained lands to meet world goals for food, fiber and fuels.
Emerging Issues (next 20 years) � 5) Innovative ways to integrate drainage and irrigation (i. e. storage and recycling of drainage waters) specifically in the Midwest U. S.
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