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NRCS Partnership Program Supports Innovative Project in Nebraska

High Plains Public Radio

Published January 6, 2015 at 12:00 AM CST

Producer Joel Bergman of Loomis, Nebraska, talks about how he switched from labor-intensive canal and gravity irrigation to pivot and underground drip systems on his 1500-acre operation. The Bergman farmstead prevents one pivot system from sweeping 360 degrees, bypassing the pie-slice where the farmstead is located. Bergman proposed putting in a wiper center pivot and 20-acres' worth of underground drip irrigation.

Participants:

Joel Bergman
Producer
Holdrege, NE

Curtis W. Scheele
Water Quality Specialist
NRCS
Holdrege, NE