Author: Brad Lee
Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences
Major Program: Water and Soil Quality and Conservation
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Edge-of-field water quality monitoring stations have been developed to measure continuous nutrient and sediment runoff within row-crop agricultural fields across western Kentucky through a partnership of nine landowners, the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board, the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board, the USDA NRCS, Kentucky Geological Survey and the College of Agriculture Food and Environment at the University of Kentucky. We summarized an example soil erosion event and presented this to the Kentucky soybean producers across the state via the Kentucky Soybean Board publication, Kentucky Soybean Sentinel. Figures and data used in this published article were incorporated into another article within September 2023 issue of the University of Kentucky’s Corn & Soybean Newsletter. The article, authored Dr. John Grove titled, Soil Health, Erosion and Fall Field Management, was reposted by Dr. Chad Lee to a blog at KyGrains.info where it was read by Dr. Lauren Cagle. Dr. Cagle subsequently made this article required reading for her Honors College course, UKC 180, Ten Ways To Think about Climate Change in Kentucky, and invited me to guest lecture about soil erosion processes to the students.
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