A kid who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to become a researcher on the forefront of carbon, nitrogen and water research joins Jamie on this episode to talk about the value of drainage, the carbon footprint and how research is making precision agriculture much more attainable in the Midwest.
About the Guest:
A kid who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to become a researcher on the forefront of carbon, nitrogen and water research joins Jamie on this episode to talk about the value of drainage, the carbon footprint and how research is making precision agriculture much more attainable in the Midwest.
FACTS website:
https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/facts/
Iowa Nitrogen Initiative:
https://www.agron.iastate.edu/portfolio/iowa-nitrogen-initiative/
Chapters & Episode Topics:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Welcome to Dr. Castellano
01:35 What do you do?
02:45 Nitrous oxide – no laughing matter
03:45 Newark, NJ to the Midwest
04:34 More valuable than mass transit
07:00 You can’t understand what you don’t see
08:32 Reducing nitrate loss downstream
10:45 The carbon footprint
12:51 Electric cars and nitrous oxide
15:35 Drainage is good for nitrogen use efficiency
17:42 Cover crops and carbon footprints
23:54 Organic matter by the numbers
28:52 Making the system more resilient
30:00 Rapid cycling=healthy soil
30:30 Just the FACTS
32:12 Iowa Nitrogen Initiative, scaling up research
35:00 Precision agriculture
38:00 You’re now a landowner – what would you do?
39:00 The benefits of edge-of-field-practices
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