Purdue University - Agronomy Extension
About
The Water Quality Field Station was constructed with Crossroads 1990 funds, an Indiana program providing capital support to agricultural research. The facility was developed on a gently sloping 10-acre site, and consists of 54 individually tiled and instrumented plots. Forty-eight plots are constructed to be isolated drainage lysimeters, and the remaining six plots are built on three standard tile spacings.
The WQFS allows researchers from the College of Agriculture and the USDA to identify agricultural practices that minimize movement of agricultural chemicals into water supplies. Alternative management practices are evaluated for their environmental, agronomic, and economic effectiveness. With knowledge from this research, new and more ecologically-balanced technologies can be developed for crop production.
Contacts
Eileen Kladivko
Professor of Agronomy - Soil Physics & Management
kladivko@purdue.edu
Sylvie Brouder
Professor of Agronomy - Plant Mineral Nutrition
Wickersham Chair of Excellence in Ag. Research
sbrouder@purdue.edu
Nikki De Armond
Water Quality Field Station Manager
fink@purdue.edu
Take a Closer Look
Get a first person perspective of the Water Quality Field Station by checking out this photosphere next to one of the research huts.