This the third post in the Gorans Blog Series about the Gorans Discovery Farm Project. You can read the previous posts here. How much water is running off the landscape? A watershed is an area of land that drains to a given … Read More
Discovery Farms collect water quality information from the edge-of-field monitoring sites. These monitoring sites are situated at the edge of agricultural fields and collect water from areas ranging from 5 to 600 acres. There are two types of runoff collected; … Read More
Please click here for part 1 of this blog which discusses annual precipitation and it’s relationship to surface runoff. Part 2 of this blog explores why annual precipitation is poor predictor of surface runoff from agricultural fields by examining the role of … Read More
It is usually thought that higher precipitation leads to higher surface runoff from agricultural fields. However, edge-of-field surface runoff research from the Discovery Farms programs in Wisconsin and Minnesota have documented that the amount of annual precipitation is a poor … Read More