08/10/07 Drought guide on the Internet

With water supplies getting tighter and tighter, 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." Neibling says there are 25 different items that can be downloaded by category. NEIBLING "Irrigation scheduling, irrigation system management and maintenance, water conservation and then I go into you know publications that deal with potato irrigation, sugar beets, cereals, alfalfa, lawn and trees." Again, it's uidaho.edu/extension and look for the drought link. Today's Idaho Ag News Bill Scott