Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 5/23/22


Growing up on a row crop and tobacco farm near Bath in Beaufort County in eastern North Carolina, Chad Poole saw first-hand just how critical water management is to making crops. In North Carolina’s rich and fertile Blackland’s, not far from the Atlantic Ocean, the problem is usually too much water. But the challenge of drought can still be an issue, and the water isn’t always available when the crop needs it. It’s a problem in need of a solution.

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