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The award-winning Water Zone podcast brings together various perspectives from industry experts, government leaders, authors, environmentalists and others to discuss today’s water challenges and explore opportunities for sustaining one of our most vital resources. Sponsored and supported by The Toro Company.
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Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Award-Winning Innovation in Irrigation: Kendall DeJonge’s ET Breakthrough
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Kendall DeJonge, a USDA Research Agricultural Engineer, discusses his team's award-winning work on standardizing evapotranspiration (ET) software for water resource management. While ET methods have long been documented, Kendall highlights the lack of unified, publicly available code—until now. His team overcame major challenges to create collaborative tools using Python, chosen for its readability, extensive libraries, and broad applicability.
Podcast Recorded September 25. 2025
