Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 11/5/20


Mother Nature can be fickle when it comes to providing the right amount of water at the right time for North Carolina crops, and climate change is expected to make water management even trickier for farmers. 

At North Carolina State University, Professor Mohamed Youssef and a team of engineers and students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are developing and testing new methods of water management to achieve complementary goals – to help farmers increase their yields and to prevent water quality problems downstream.

“This research is for tomorrow’s agriculture – climate resilient, environmentally sustainable and resource efficient,” said Youssef, of NC State’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE). “It applies the technologies that are available today to adapt and improve agricultural systems for tomorrow’s challenges – actually, for today’s challenges, because the too-wet conditions and too-dry conditions during the growing season are now upon us year after year.”

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