Seminar
Time:
Water and Nutrient Conservation Seminar by Alvin Smucker, MSU
Date:
4:00 pm –
5:00 pm
Keim Hall
Room: 150
1825 N 38th St
Lincoln NE 68503
Lincoln NE 68503
Additional Info: KEIM
Contact:
Dana Ludvik, (402) 472-9510, dludvik@nebraska.edu
The Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute inivites you to attend the following seminar on the merits and possibilities of a new subsurface water retention technology (SWRT) and associated prescription irrigation and fertigation to ameliorate plant water drought stresses.
Presenter: Alvin Smucker, Professor of Soil Biophysics, Michigan State University
Seminar: “Subsurface Water Retention Technology (SWRT): A New Water Technology for Increasing PAW and Nutrients in Root Zones of Most Plants”
Summary: High quality water, the world’s most finite critical natural resource, ensures economic, environmental, political and social sustainability. Excessive infiltration and redistribution of water within highly permeable soils are well known. Soil scientists and engineers at Michigan State University developed and field-tested a patented membrane installation device (MID) to install water saving membranes at multiple soil depths in field research. This new subsurface water retention technology (SWRT) retains and uniformly redistributes plant available water in the root zones of most agricultural and horticultural plants. SWRT water saving membranes retain more plant available water in the root zones by reducing nutrient losses to groundwater supplies. Preliminary data showing lower allocation of plant photosynthate carbon to smaller plant root systems will be presented as a new mechanism for increasing aboveground food and biomass production with less water.
Presenter: Alvin Smucker, Professor of Soil Biophysics, Michigan State University
Seminar: “Subsurface Water Retention Technology (SWRT): A New Water Technology for Increasing PAW and Nutrients in Root Zones of Most Plants”
Summary: High quality water, the world’s most finite critical natural resource, ensures economic, environmental, political and social sustainability. Excessive infiltration and redistribution of water within highly permeable soils are well known. Soil scientists and engineers at Michigan State University developed and field-tested a patented membrane installation device (MID) to install water saving membranes at multiple soil depths in field research. This new subsurface water retention technology (SWRT) retains and uniformly redistributes plant available water in the root zones of most agricultural and horticultural plants. SWRT water saving membranes retain more plant available water in the root zones by reducing nutrient losses to groundwater supplies. Preliminary data showing lower allocation of plant photosynthate carbon to smaller plant root systems will be presented as a new mechanism for increasing aboveground food and biomass production with less water.
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