06/20/07 Drought info in one location

With water supplies short, University of Idaho Extension has added 11 new publications to its drought-related Web site, www.uidaho.edu/extension/drought. Howard Neibling, the university's Extension water management engineer, has found research papers and other drought related information, compiled them and put them in one location. NEIBLING "We talk about a lot of these topics in our winter meetings with producers, in commodity schools or irrigation related meetings but you know not everybody comes to those and so putting this information on the web is just another way of trying to make it available for people without having them have to go through and dig out a lot of information themselves. They can at least go to this site and download some of this information." For example Neibling says grain producers can save two irrigations by selecting the right time to end the season's water applications. He says making well-informed decisions on when to switch water from grains and alfalfa to sugarbeets and potatoes can also make a pocketbook difference for Idaho's agricultural producers. Again, it's uidaho.edu/extension and look for the drought link. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott