Corn Yield Response to Drainage Water Recycling Using Subirrigation

Drainage water recycling is a practice of capturing and storing agricultural surface and subsurface drainage water in a reservoir, and then reusing that water as supplemental irrigation. This innovative approach to drainage water management can provide several benefits within drained agricultural landscapes. This publication, part of the Transforming Drainage series (see ABE-156-W, ABE-164-W, and ABE-160-W) synthesizes the impact of this practice on corn yield and yield variability from 53 site-years at seven sites across the Midwest.