Ag Water: Dr. Jeppe Kjaersgaard spoke in the Terry Redlin Environmental Center February 24, 2011 as part of the Mike Williams Lecture Series. The presentation was hosted by the Upper Big Sioux River Watershed Project and the Kampeska Izaak Walton League. Jan Mullin, UBSRW Administrative Assistant, introduced the speaker.
Changes in agricultural cropping patterns in eastern
South Dakota over the last couple of decades have changed the water use by agricultural crops. Dr. Jeppe Kjaersgaard from the Water Resources Institute at SDSU presented new methods for estimating crop water use and how these methods can be used in crop water management.