By Lyndon Kelley
Water policy challenges are in the future for Michigan and Indiana. The Irrigation Day webinar series will provide three sessions explaining the competition for water and how it may affect your practices.
If you watch or read the news, almost every week there is a new wrinkle in water-dependent business development. Economic expansion is high on most people’s minds, but protecting our local water quality and availability is essential for agriculture and rural living. Protecting water quality and the competition for large inexpensive quantities of water often puts irrigated agriculture in competition for water needed for cooling of data centers, chip manufacturers, and other manufacturing.
One of the highest-ranking issues for irrigators in a recent Michigan State University (MSU) Extension survey was the availability of water under current or future regulations. The Irrigation Day webinar series on March 5 will focus on water policy issues in both Indiana and Michigan. Please consider registering for the webinar series to learn more about water policy and other irrigation related issues.
Water policy sessions on March 5
10:00-10:50 a.m.
Why is irrigation important in our area? – Molly Sears, PhD, MSU Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, and Lyndon Kelley, Purdue Extension/MSU Extension.
An overview of the economic and agricultural efficiencies that irrigation offers and how they benefit financial and environmental protection in the community.
Source : msu.edu