Top Crop Manager: Managing subsurface water in era of climate change

The effects of climate change are generating more interest in the uses for tile drainage, especially in heavy clay soils, according to Ranjan R. Sri Ranjan, professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba. “We are experiencing more frequent periods of heavy rain followed by drought,” says Ranjan, “and when it rains, it often rains more heavily than in the past.”

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