K-State irrigation engineer bringing water competition to KansasAn innovative program comparing High Plains farmers’ use of various water mana...
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
An innovative program comparing High Plains farmers’ use of various water management technologies in their operations may seem like a reality show, but Daran Rudnick sees it much different.
True, Rudnick says, the program is billed as a competition, but the participants – in this case, farmers in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma – are actually building their own support network.
“There is so much technology and so many water management practices out there currently, that it’s really difficult to expect anybody to be able to introduce those in their own operation, whether it’s because of time or cost restraints,” said Rudnick, a professor of biological and agricultural engineering at Kansas State University, and the director of sustainable irrigation in the College of Agriculture.
Rudnick, who has been at K-State for less than a month, was a key figure in creating a University of Nebraska program known as TAPS – Testing Ag Performance Solutions – which just completed its seventh year. As a new K-State faculty member, one of his assignments is to implement the program more fully in western Kansas, an agriculture-rich region threatened by dwindling water availability.
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