Agchat session 3/23/2010

Question 1:

What can/should farmers do to protect quality of surface and ground water?

Question 2:

Would you incorporate algae tech and/or hydroponics to handle nutrient runoff if there was an ongoing ROI?

Question 3:

People talk about food security. Are farmers feeling ‘H2O secure’ for what they want to do? How about 10 years from now?

Question 4:

Tom Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture, says farms of future need to be about developing ‘eco-system markets.’ How do we tap ‘water market?’

Question 5:

What are some of challenges facing agriculture with regard to diminishing supplies of fresh water?

Question 6:

What is the biggest water challenge in your area?

Question 7:

How should farmers respond to PETA’s claim it takes ‘4K liters of H2O to produce 1 steak’?

Question 8:

What cool technology resources are being developed to clean water today?

Question 9:

What voluntary decreases in ag activity could result in lower water usage?

Question 10:

Do H2O use efficiency improvements really conserve water? Or just get more yield for the same amount of water use?

Question 11:

What is the one executable idea you’ll act upon as a result of tonight’s #agchat?

Thanks to Truffle Media for archiving this
week’s chat