Morning session

8:00 am

Registration and morning refreshments

9:00 am

Biomass production strategies and potential impacts in the drained lands: Environmental implications - Matt Liebman, professor, Agronomy, Iowa State University

9:45 am

Two-stage ditch design - Joe Magner, research professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Saturated buffers - Dan Jaynes, professor, Agronomy, Iowa State University and USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa

11:30 am

River flows and drainage in the Minnesota River Basin - Jason Ulrich, research fellow, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota

12:15 pm

Lunch (provided)

Afternoon session

1:00 pm

Phosphorus loss through subsurface tile drainage – Antonio Mallarino, professor, Agronomy, Iowa State University

1:45 pm

Pumped outlets - Tom Scherer, associate professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, North Dakota State University

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Farmer perspective on emerging drainage practices - Tony Thompson, farmer, southwest Minnesota

3:15 pm

Activities to address nutrient loss from drained landscapes: Commodity group perspectives
- South Dakota Corn
- Minnesota Corn Growers
- Iowa Soybean Association - Todd Sutphin, state watershed coordinator, Iowa Soybean Association
-Open discussion

4:15 pm

Forum concludes