Water Usage of Native Perennials in Annual Crop System - Graduate Student

March 2010

Emily Hancheck, graduate student in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, discusses the technology used while working with a team of ISU researchers to find the water usage of native perennial plants in an annual crop system. They're working with 48 plots on the Agronomy and Agricultural Engineering Research Farm just west of Ames. Filmed 2009.

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