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In situ soil moisture testbeds at the Konza Prairie. Rainfed Agriculture Innovation Network (RAIN) NRCS_Kansas Konza Prairie LTER K-State Agronomy

This is why we need soil cover Rainfed Agriculture Innovation Network (RAIN) K-State Agronomy

We did a literature synthesis of potential alfalfa water productivity, and used it to calculate yield gaps in farmers’ fields in Kansas. We also interviewed farmers to detect management practices associate with higher yields. Check it out here authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

Last year I had the opportunity to carry out an experiment testing the transpiration response of palmer amaranth to drying soil in greenhouse conditions. 🔍 In the following article are some interesting findings bit.ly/3yIpCZq KSU Soil Water Lab Rainfed Agriculture Innovation Network (RAIN) K-State Agronomy

Andres Patrignani presenting "Quantifying Soil, Plant, and Residue Cover from Images of Agricultural Fields Using a Convolutional Neural Network" at the Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies Annual Meeting.

Poster session showtime in Baltimore! Sofi and Joaquin Peraza sharing their research on ET partitioning and soil moisture mapping. Soil Science Society of America Rainfed Agriculture Innovation Network (RAIN)

Former and current students of the KSU Soil Water Lab lab learning about soil matric potential sensors IRROMETER Company K-State Agronomy

Weekly measurements in Ashland Bottoms experimental plots: ✅ Soil water moisture ✅ Canopy cover ✅ Winter Wheat biomass Plus: Triticale hand-planting!!

New article describing a database of soil physical properties for the Kansas Mesonet and Nathaniel Parker, Ph.D. made it to the cover of this volume! The entire dataset is available in the supplemental material. acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/143506…

Getting ready for winter season: ✅ Nishadini Widanagamage soil sampling ✅ Joaquin Peraza working on CRONOS Station at Gypsum ✅ Sofi measuring soil moisture

Great attendance and unparalleled atmosphere at the annual meeting for the W-4188 multistate project at the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas. The group has been doing research in soil physics and vadose zone hydrology since 1958. K-State Research and Extension Vadose Zone Journal Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies

Hands-on exercise on soil moisture measurements. Now students from Environmental Soil Physics Class know why it is possible to use relative permittivity to quantity soil water content.

A comprehensive database of site-specific soil physical properties for the Kansas Mesonet offers new opportunities to use Mesonet soil moisture observations for important agricultural and hydrological applications. doi.org/10.1002/saj2.2… KSU Soil Water Lab Nathaniel Parker, Ph.D.

Did you know that surfaces with contact angles greater than 90 degrees are called hydrophobic, while those less than 90 degrees are hydrophilic. 💧💦 #FunFact #Science #Hydrophobic #Hydrophilic

Let’s start Friday morning with some particle size analysis with Sofi and Nishadini Widanagamage K-State Agronomy

Excelente recognition for the on-farm research by Pedro Rossini and a collaborative study to calibrate soil moisture sensors with Oklahoma State University and China Agricultural University. K-State Agronomy @CampbellSci

Station maintenance day. Today we visited 16 stations across the Kings Creek watershed within the Konza Prairie. Data will be available soon! K-State Agronomy Konza Prairie LTER METER Environment

Today we flipped the classroom and students taught the instructor a lesson on the equations governing soil water flow! K-State Agronomy

This technical note revisits laboratory methods for measuring #soil water retention curves in Kansas soils. The largest discrepancy between traditional and modern methods was observed at matric potentials of −33 and −70 kPa. doi.org/10.1002/saj2.2… K-State Agronomy

Wrapping up AGRON-746 Environmental Soil Physics class with a hands-on exercise in soil water balance modeling using the single crop coefficient method from FAO-24 and FAO-56. It's been a great semester, and we hope you had as much fun as we did!