#72: Knee-Deep in the Timing of Manure Applications- Is Spring the Thing? with Dr. Michelle Soupir

Manure, corn cobs, muddy creeks and land grant universities. Dr. Michelle Soupir of Iowa State University joins Host Jamie Duininck to discuss the benefits of spring manure applications, the impacts of studying at a land-grant university and how corn cobs might be the wave of the future for bioreactors.
About the Guest:
Dr. Michelle Soupir joined the faculty at Iowa State University in 2008. She was appointed as an Interim Associate Dean in the Graduate College in 2022 and is a Professor in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department (ABE) with a research and teaching appointment. Dr. Soupir received her B.S. degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from Kansas State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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Episode Topics:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Welcome to Dr. Michelle Soupir
01:39 ISU Water Chicks
02:12 All the land grant universities
05:30 Water quality and manure
06:30 Prairie grass and muddy creeks
08:20 Current research - Blackhawk Lake watershed monitoring
10:13 All about manure
11:27 Antibiotics in watersheds
14:10 Spring manure application
16:40 Cover Crops
17:33 27 plots = A lot of research
18:20 So many students, so many opportunities
21:57 Wood chip bioreactors - more than a decade of research
24:20 Forest management + water quality management
25:30 Students - not just academics in the future
26:20 Wood chips vs. corn cobs, pumping and more
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