Younsuk Dong & Lyndon Kelley - Improving Irrigation Water Management
Proper irrigation is important to improve water and energy use efficiency, reduce the risk of wasting resources, maximize return on investment, and minimize the risk of plant disease. Choosing the right sprinkler system for potato production and sensor-based irrigation scheduling will be discussed.
Thursday, February 3rd
11:30am - 12:15pm
About The Speakers
Younsuk Dong - Michigan State University
Younsuk Dong has served as an Irrigation Specialist in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State University. His primary research focuses on improving irrigation water use efficiency by utilizing technologies. He developed LOCOMOS (Low-cost sensor Monitoring System), which is affordable irrigation and disease management technology package. He also has research experiences in monitoring and modeling the fate and transport of water and nutrients in soils.
Lyndon Kelley - Michigan State University
Lyndon Kelley has served as an Irrigation Educator for MSU and Purdue Extension for the past eleven years working in the areas of irrigation management and water policy. He has provided irrigation design and management education to producers and industries relying on the 1.2 million-acre of irrigated land shared by the two States. With thirty-five years of commercial corn, soybean, seed corn, and vegetable irrigation experience Lyndon has learned to look for the increased yield and reduced risk irrigation can provide without endangering natural resources.
