The Real Price of Drainage: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Cost?

Episode 80 | 24 min

With Guest:

Tom Christensen of COnservation Drainage Network

In this episode of The Water Table, Jamie and Tom Christensen discuss the importance of public and private partnerships in agricultural water management and the importance of investing in drainage management practices. From cost-sharing to education to removing barriers, it’s a wealth of information that every crop producer should hear!

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We’re really after benefits for the producer and for the larger community... How do we remove these barriers for producers? The producers are the decision makers. They’re the ones that bear the risk, and we’ve got to do everything we can as public and private entities to make this easier for them to manage that water and optimize their results.

Guest Bio

Tom Christensen is the chair of the Conservation Drainage Network’s Growth Committee. He also works with Ecosystem Services Exchange and spent 40 years with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) before retiring from the USDA in 2020. Tom spent 24 years in Washington, DC in a variety of positions in policy, program development and implementation, agency and mission area operations and partnership building. He also served as NRCS’s Regional Conservationist for the Central U.S. and prior to that was the NRCS State Conservationist for the state of Illinois.

Podcast Episode 80

The Real Price of Drainage: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Cost?

Episode 80 | 24 min

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