It’s a wide range of topics on today’s episode of The Water Table Podcast. Duane Bonnema joins host Jamie Duininck to talk agriculture water management and has some go-to advice for any farmer who has tiled fields. Plus, how he uses the latest technology to help farmers maintain their drainage systems and why every inch of tile should be mapped.
About the Guest:
Duane Bonnema founded Bonnema Surveys (Now Bonnema Runke Stern Inc.) in 1981. He has been working with tile contractors for more than 40 years and is wealth of knowledge in the industry. His current endeavor is Ag Water Management, a company out of Raymond, MN that specializes in farm drainage planning.
Ag Water Management, Raymond, MN
https://www.facebook.com/AgWaterManagement/
Bonnema Runke Stern, Inc
https://www.brssurveys.com/
Episode Topics & Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Coming up today…
01:00 Welcome to Duane Bonnema
01:43 How it all began
03:40 Plastic pipe changes the work
04:55 Minnesota to Michigan to Minnesota
07:00 Bonnema Surveys
08:52 Drones and cameras
11:00 Surprises in the pipes
12:40 All the surface inlets
14:50 The simplest solution
16:40 Just a coupler
19:00 The value of mapping
21:00 The advent of GPS
24:30 A lifetime investment
26:00 Increasing the tax base
28:30 Really old lines – and still working
30:00 Pattern tiling
34:00 Water storage is available
37:00 So misunderstood
40:00 Swamp buster bill
42:00 It’s detention…
43:40 Outlets, inlets, outlets
46:30 Every investment takes maintenance
49:30 Ag Water Management
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